They started out as Quantum Link (?), designed for the Commodore Computer. They then split into several components … Commodore, Apple and PC. Eventually they merged into a common link for all computers as an access to the Internet. Our first and, at the time, our only access to the Internet. Then they got greedy, the rest is history.
>>>They started out as Quantum Link (?), designed for the Commodore Computer.
Yes before there was AoL, there was Q-Link. I was there on my Commodore 64. The service wasn’t even available until about 6 pm, and was turned off about 8 am. Until my Commodore died it was a great place. Way ahead of its time with the Casino section and the Club Caribe avitar world.
We even invented the Age/Sex checks. I apologize for that. At the time it seemed funny.
It was something like a penny a minute, which doesn’t seem like much but boy it added up. Fortunately before long I was given the secret of the “backdoor” link by a Quantum rep who liked me, that allowed me to be online for free.