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Re:Sears's History Predicts Almost Everything Amazon's Doing by Alex3917 on Monday September 25, 2017 @03:15PM (#15333166)
> co-founded an ISP (Prodigy)

Famous for being one of the least competently-managed joint ventures of all time.

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Re:Sears's History Predicts Almost Everything Amazon's Doing by ghaff on Monday September 25, 2017 @04:26PM (#15333819)
Prodigy was truly awful. As I recall, it attempted to appeal to non-techies with a graphical interface at a time when computers really weren't fast enough and color graphics sucked (CGA). Just terrible in comparison to commercial services like CIS as well as BBSs (both paid and free).
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Re:Sears's History Predicts Almost Everything Amazon's Doing by Endy on Monday September 25, 2017 @06:06PM (#15334588)
Weird, because I was on Prodigy and it worked beautifully for me; and it's the only reason I'll even give online gaming a marginal glance nowadays.
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