We used Prodigy back in the mammoth online service days. Then switched to a normal ISP.
Don't you just love this party? Everything's so fancy, and there's some kind of hot cheese over there.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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Gris - Sep 10, 2011 11:20:00 am PDT #17782 of 25501
Hey. New board.
§ ita § - Sep 10, 2011 11:27:03 am PDT #17783 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I tried Prodigy too, because I've always been compulsive. Also, Juno. I sign up for just about anything that catches my cursor. But they were never primary. Only AOL was. A local ISP wouldn't work because I worked in a different area code from where I lived, and I totally had to sneak on-line with the only personal modem at the office.
meara - Sep 10, 2011 11:42:27 am PDT #17784 of 25501
Yeah, I have memories from high school of rationing my monthly hours on prodigy so I could get on chat boards...
Typo Boy - Sep 10, 2011 11:49:47 am PDT #17785 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I was never on AOL. I hated AOL before hating AOL was cool.
quester - Sep 10, 2011 12:08:17 pm PDT #17786 of 25501
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I think Juno was my first or second. Never did AOL or Compuserve. I was late to the party and didn't have a computer until the lollipop iMacs, mine was green.
Jessica - Sep 10, 2011 12:25:26 pm PDT #17787 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Prodigy was my first ISP, and I never had an AOL handle until I needed one for AIM. I wish I could remember my Prodigy ID, but it's gone.
Liese S. - Sep 10, 2011 12:28:34 pm PDT #17788 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I was on Compuserve and ended up on aol because of gaming. I was fatoudust there because everybody on the internet was supposed to be geeky and get fractal math references. I had multiple accounts and kept a notebook with lists of online minutes, somewhat because of chat, but mostly text based rpgs. It's kinda funny to me in a way that we're back to metered data usage. We may look back on the years we're closing out now as the halcyon days of unlimited data.
Strix - Sep 10, 2011 12:35:05 pm PDT #17789 of 25501
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
When I went to NWMSU in 90-94, there was a while big deal about it being the first "electronic campus" so I started out with my student email, then I had Jan-May without email at my folks house (NBD -- I used a LAND LINE (gasp) to call people on their LAND LINES when I wanted to chat, and used my dad's Earthlink if I needed to surf) and then I started grad school in 95.
sumi - Sep 10, 2011 12:43:39 pm PDT #17790 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!
I have an aol name because of AIM - but that was the only part of aol I ever used. (I had my NIU email address - I've had it pretty much since grad school.)
Sophia Brooks - Sep 10, 2011 12:52:26 pm PDT #17791 of 25501
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
The Buffistas were my first internet experience. I was such a late adopter that my first home computer was a ruby imac,and I used to print off pages of buffistas at work to read at home.