Re:The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is...
by hakfoo on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @10:06PM
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A major problem with Prodigy was that it didn't transition well to the Windows 3.1/95 ecosystem.
Their custom graphics were a good plan for making use of a 2400bps connection, but they screamed EGA. I suspect they had to develop a lot of GUI features from scratch.
The result was that the Prodigy package looked like running a DOS package in a window, while AOL looked and felt like a native package.
I also suspect it did them no benefits that you got an assigned and largely illegible email address by default-- you didn't see people clinging to their [email protected] addresses the way they kept their [email protected] ones.
Their custom graphics were a good plan for making use of a 2400bps connection, but they screamed EGA. I suspect they had to develop a lot of GUI features from scratch.
The result was that the Prodigy package looked like running a DOS package in a window, while AOL looked and felt like a native package.
I also suspect it did them no benefits that you got an assigned and largely illegible email address by default-- you didn't see people clinging to their [email protected] addresses the way they kept their [email protected] ones.