Re: AOL for Apple II

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

pmd@NETescape.ca (Perry Dueck) wrote:

>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>> Both.  You see, AOL was created by a meger of AppleLink and QuantumLink.
>> That's why both Apple II users and C64 users claim to be the ones AOL was
>> originally built upon.
>
>How many different AppleLink services were there?
>
>Because well into the mid '90s for sure, there was an AppleLink service
>run by Apple Computer, Inc. for Mac developers, software/hardware dealers,
>and users....I remember going on it in college in late 1994....perhaps it
>may even still be in service...I don't know. I would imagine with the
>explosion and popularity of the Internet and it's world wide web since the
>mid-ninety's, the need for such a service would have dropped off in favour
>of the Internet....???
>
>And yes, it was named "AppleLink" just as I spelled it.

Could be a recycling of names (like AppleWorks).  I just know that for
a time, you could actually log onto AOL with the old AppleLink software
for the Apple II.