Re: AOL? Do What?!

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"John Smith" <sedrake@drunkmail.com> wrote in message
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> Actually check this site out for more information on AOL beginings.
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> http://www.atarihq.com/2678/3party/cvc.html
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> It was called CVC and ran a service for the Atari 2600, then changed
> their name to Quantum, then to AOL. Phoenix the Fall and Rise of Video
> Games by Leonard Herman has some good information on this as well.
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> 02/91 DOS version of America Online launched
> 06/90 Quantum's "Promenade" service launched for the IBM PS/1
> 10/89 "America Online" service is launched for Macintosh and Apple II
> 08/88 Quantum's "PC-Link" launched through a joint venture with Tandy
> Corporation
> 11/85 Quantum's first online service, "Q-Link," launched on Commodore
> Business Machines
> 05/24/85 Date of incorporation under original founding name, Quantum
> Computer Services, registered in Delaware

That information was taken from AOL's corporate web page on
the Timeline page.

http://www.corp.aol.com/whoweare/who_timeline.html

Check this link out to show that the Applelink
service was launched by Quantum back in Summer of 1988.

http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Fall2000/McAtee/main2.html

AOL was launched on October 2, 1989 when I first joined
using a Mac Plus.  It was pretty cool for the day since AOL
was originally designed to be an extention of the Mac
Desktop.  That was way before Explorer became the standard
desktop metaphor.

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