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Neglected Books
@neglectedbooks.com

You young 'uns may not know that there was a time when the Internet was for computer scientists and there were lots of lousy alternatives. I had a GEnie account (and on Compuserv and Prodigy and several BBSes), but all that ended when I got an Internet account via NASA Ames in 1991. 1/2

Internet Archive@archive.org

GEnie (the General Electric Network for Information Exchange) was founded in 1985 as a #DialUpEra online service. 💿 In 1996, new owners attempted to reinvent the magic 🧞 for the web era. But the service went up in smoke by Y2K. Revisit web history with the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org

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Margarite “Peg” Otis
@hept.app

I've been having a "looks kind of like Prodigy" moment on the current iteration of the Internet repeatedly for the last couple of decades. Deja Prodigy all over again to hell.

Neglected Books
@neglectedbooks.com

I hate to say it, but I mostly used it for work emails, though I did discover Usenet and become an early member of the Exotica mailing list, which changed my life and led to the antique but still online Space Age Pop website. the-exotica-group.blogspot.com/p/the-old.html

the-exotica-group.blogspot.comThe Exotica Music Mailing List 05 May 1994 – 10 March 2017Moritz suggested I  write a few details about what happened to the original Exotica list. With a resurgent interest about it on Facebo...
Wade
@wadewarrens.bsky.social

First time I ever got flamed online was back in 1991 when, on rec.music.gdead, I was unwise enough to express an appreciation for Brent Mydland. Still stings, but very much appreciate the LLNL dialup back then :-)