QuantumLink pics

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 07:22:06 CDT 2005


Jim Leonard wrote:
> Jim Brain wrote:
> 
>> My apologies, but there are some pictures, if interested:
> 
> 
> Well, this is one of the coolest things I've seen this year.  Many 
> congratuations on getting your initial stages working.
> 
> You know what I miss?  Prodigy.  I miss the high-resolution vector 
> graphics -- some truly amazing pictures went down the 1200 baud wire 
> amazingly quickly because the vector art obviously took up much less 
> space than bitmap art (even ASCII art!).  In 1989, it was the web before 
> the web was even concieved (including advertising!!).
> 
> There was a Prodigy 'demo' disk floating around that simulated a Prodigy 
> session to try to get people to sign up.  It didn't require the service 
> itself, or even a modem -- does anyone have this disk?

That brings back some memories.  Prodigy helped get me through junior high.

Peace...  Sridhar


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