Prodigy

I just spent a good amount of time reminiscing on this site about Prodigy Classic. Prodigy (or *P) was my very first online experience. It even pre-dates my BBS days. I got it back in 92 and was a member for around 2 years. If you want to see what the interface looked like, click here for an index of random screenshots. Pretty primitive looking, but back then this was waaaay cool. It was cool watching the line art draw out, which probably had to do with the 2400 baud modem I had at the time. =)

I remember my ID – NRKG37A. I remember how cool it was to see the "NEW MAIL" text with a flashing box around it appear right after you logged in. I remember the email limits we had. Only 30 a month. After that, it was 10 cents extra for each one. And not only that, you could only send 4 pages max in an email. And by a page I mean 20 lines of text, 60 columns per row. That's tiny!

I remember beta testing Prodigy Chat. I remember beta testing Prodigy Bulletin Board Note Manager. I remember the Core/Plus pricing plan, after which a lot of us jumped ship and moved to AOL (I wonder what happened to them?). I remember playing that CEO game with my buddies. I remember when they introduced (with much fanfare) photo-quality pictures. I remember when testing out their 14.4k lines.

Oh, and most important of all, *P is where I first met Tracy. Yep, she's a geek girl too. In fact, the very first email I ever got was from her. How cool is that??? =)