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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