I found it remarkable that those early entrepreneurs have tried the online subscription model of games, and music way back then... course the technology just wasn't good enough to run smoothly.
@@LGR I truly applaud you for being a walking wikipedia for retro tech in this day and age. I also envy your truly massive library. I want there to be a law that your content is mandatory learning for computer courses
Growing up in the 80's, I have nothing but the fondest memories of Qlink. They were the first to feature email and instant messages. They had weekly events in their "auditorium" which at times contained hundreds of other users. I remember the beloved emcee "RJScott". I was addicted to playing Name that Tune and won many "Q-pons" (redeemable for game time) from it. In the early 90's as the Commodore 64 fell out of use, the population of Q-Link dwindled and I left around 1993. The service ended permanently in 1994. But I have nothing but the warmest memories of all those lonely nights as a confused teen being kept company by all those wonderful people on Q-Link.
Awesome video, and even as a kid in late 87 I was a user of Q-Link on my C128 as it came on the back of the GEOS software, and it was AWESOME!!! with a Commodore 1670 modem(1200 baud). I was lucky because the South Carolina # for GEOS for me at the time was a local call(you found the #'s in the book that came with the software), so no long distance fees ever showed on my parents bill lol!, and the expense of per hour was total worth it for the interaction I got from other people at the time, and being able to show it off to my friends. Also I to note the Q-Link was online till mid 1994 if I remember correctly, but I used it up till around early 92 once users started dropping off big time, and I was moving onto a DOS/Win 3.11 PC. Good times indeed. :-)
I love these man, honestly if it wasn't for you I'd never know about this stuff or probably even care. If you ever wonder if your sub base is based off of just other classic PC nerds know that isn't the case and you're actually creating new interests for people! That's a big accomplishment man, and we're happy for ya
Just want to let you know that every Friday when I get off from my double shifts your videos make my night, I always look forward to watching these and unwinding after a long days work. Thanks for all of the hard work you put into your videos!
I'm really addicted to the tech tales series! Whenever you post a new one I rewatch all the old ones, over and over and it never gets boring! Not a techie really, but the way you present it gets me hooked! Keep up the AWESOME work!
It's funny, because one of the techs working on those first Apple computers had a system all worked out to let the computers communicate with one another over long distances. Jobs made him remove it because he wanted to keep things simple almost to a fault. It's the same reason they had those one-button mice among other things.
M. Wells Jobs made some astoundingly short sighted decisions, especially in the early days. He is why Lisa, and it's counterparts, could never match the Apple II series controlled primarily by Woz's imput.
Your passion for tech history is so wonderful! I really love these kind of videos you do. I know a lot of work must go into getting the history just right as well as finding the perfect photos to complement your narration. Always looking forward to your videos no matter what the topic.
FOREAL if you make a videos reviwing noodles and just eating them for 18 min str8 i would watch and be very happy about it! great work man!! still have the floppy u signed for me!!!
Been watching you on my vizio tv for a while now. XD Good ole hdmi to pc video card. Now I have the urge to play Apple IIe Oregon Trail again. Green & white "colors" only!
Damn! You left it off on a cliffhanger, I was really getting into that story too. But that means you did a terrific job on this, now I can't wait for the next part to come out.
This is awesome! Just as all of the other content, I didn't think Tech Tales would keep getting better but man somehow I feel every-time you've tightened the screws even more every-time. Might as well consider every instance of Tech Tales a professionally done tech documentary at this point. TH-cam is too lucky to have creators like you.
Very cool. I am a former QLink user myself and it was interesting to learn about how it came to be. There was actually an attempt a few years back to reverse engineer the QLink protocols in an attempt to resurrect that service from a nostalgic perspective, but it likely got shot down hard by AOL.
It sounds pretty crazy, but the GameLine wasn't even the first device to let you do this. A similar service for the Intellivision called PlayCable came onto the market a couple of years before the GameLine. The problem was that neither really worked very well, hence why DLC for game consoles didn't really become a thing until 25 or so years later.
Man, they had so much cool ideas back then, really impressive to see how the basically thought about programs that were like Spotify, Steam, Second Life and other platforms when internet barely existed.
This brings back the memories, I used q-link in the early days.. It was pretty cool at the time. Thanks for this vid, haven't thought about this stuff in years.
Coming home after walking in the rain to see probably my favorite content creator uploaded a video into probably my favorite of his series. It's a good day!
Have just binge watched all your tech history/Tech Tales videos and they are just fantastic! Amazing research, great narrative and narration and you're bringing much-needed attention to ground-breaking moments in tech without which, none of us would be sitting here on TH-cam. Or on the internet. Or on desktop PCs. Or laptops. Or tablets. Or smart phones. Please keep up the fantastic work!
Tech Tales is my favorite thing on youtube. Been looking forward to the AOL episode for a long time. Would also love to see tales of Prodigy and CompuServe, both of which I had at one point. Thank you!
First ISP was AOL, was not informed that by setting up my contact number as a 913 number, it would be considered long distance from Kansas City, (I live in a 913, but back then AOL considered that Topeka), so my 1st phone bills had long distance charges on them, later changed the contact to 816 (Kansas City, MO), which dropped the long distance. I liked AOL at 1st, but later found it limiting & they were always trying to sell you something when you logged in.
0:13 OMG, holy f***, that is my childhood. I haven't seen that screen in thirty years; I'd forgotten what it looks like, and the awe I felt upon first seeing it. Thank you for bringing me back to that!
I think most people forget just how frustrating modems were back in the 80s with the slow connections, drop outs and KERMIT like interfaces. I swore I would not get a modem until it became reliable. And that didn't come till the mid 90s for me.
Okay, that was extremely interesting. This is the kind of information I spend hours trying to figure out through research and you summed so much info up in 12 minutes.
I remember getting all of these online service trials when you'd buy a new modem - for every birthday or holiday I'd get the latest modem starting with a 110 baud VIC Modem all the way through my late teens when I got a 9600 baud Hayes modem! Cool - at 4:00 there was a picture of an ADM 3+ - I used to buy those at blind auction from my University - fix/repair them and add a 1200 baud modem and "rent" them to other students for pizza/beer money. Great terminals - they weren't 100% VT100 compatible but they worked well enough to dial in to campus machines (VAX or AT&T Unix) to do lab work for your classes. Awesome.
i like your videos, and how in depth you go on the computers history. also i like the way you talk, calmly and slow, this is good for foreign people so we can understand better.
This is awesome. I can't wait for the next installment! AOL opened the door to the world wide web for so many people who used it and remember it, and its history is pretty fascinating (at least by how it's portrayed here). Gah, so many awesome memories, and who couldn't forget about AOHell, Netbus, SubSe7en, and other proggerz that were easily injectable via AOL/AIM? Those were the days.
Man I LOVE Tech Tales so much, all of your topics are so interesting and well presented. I can't wait for the AOL one because god damn I remember using that shit.
I was about to post a comment like "we thought twitch streamers and youtube stars these days had fun home-jobs, that guy somehow made a living eating pizza" then I realized, like a sloth with a lightbulb slowly illuminating above his head, that you were just humorously saying he was a slacker with no job. Amazing.
Heh, I remember getting a 1200 baud modem for my C64 and it came with the Quantum Link software (this was back in late 1993 or early 94). I tried it out and got the message that it was now owned by AOL. Eventually (since I still didn't have an IBM-type yet), I was able to connect to the local Greater Columbus Freenet (someone should really do an article on the various freenets from back in the day) using Telix 3.2.1 installed on a 5 1/4" floppy. That enabled me to surf the (non GUI) internet, get Usenet, receive e-mail and do WAIS searches for an hour at a time, or two hours over a 24-hr period. All on an aging Commodore 64 and a 1200 baud modem. I still have some printouts from 1995 using GCFN and a dot-matrix printer :)
This is one of the best Tech Tales videos yet. I can't wait for the next one. Speaking of next things... NeXT would be a good subject for Tech Tales. Keep up the good work!
Oh my god! Thank you so much man, I had given up hope on seeing another one of these! Bad ass, and kudos on another great episode of this awesome series!!
I just looked him up and found out that he was a German Count - he was Head of the House of Meister, therefore a Prussian lord, and held the title of His Highness.
I loved this episode!! When you started to mention Email, I got excited. Aaron Fechter, a robotics inventor, developed a way to send mail over the telephone lines in 1985. He never figured out how to market his stuff, so it never really got out there.. he called it "The Ant-Gravity Freedom Machine".. I believe he is still active with his robots(which used to play at ShowBiz Pizza) and the company "Creative Engineering"..you should check them out, really interesting stuff. :-)
Before the internet I used to go on a BBS' called Ned's Opus. You could download cracked games, images, and even really basic GIFs (which blew our minds). I remember a GIF of the TNG enterprise shooting in a loop and it was amazing.
Q-Link is really damn impressive and I never even heard of it before. I never used a C64 before either and only in the past several years started actually seeing more Commodore 64 games in action because of Psychedelic Eyeball. What a great computer that was even if it was starting to show its age seemingly when IBMs started to come around. I'll definitely be interested in your AOL video since I lived through that and used it.
I remember using Q-Link back in the 80's! My social life - which sucked in High School - flourished as I met more introverted people who didn't fit in with the Jocks, Gearheads, or the Preps. We formed alliances and planned to dominate the world in the future! ;-)
We had CompuServe in Switzerland in the late 90s iirc. They also shipped their custom browser with built-in mail client (similar to the Netscape suite).
Good start start to a 2 part episode, I was hoping it would cover all the aol history in one episode, but oh well... thanks for the info thus for Clint
I understand Clint No worries, watched the second half a couple days ago, good job, this must have been hard to research... Thanks for the work in this one
we had q-link for our c64! 4 free hours/month; nearest dial-up server 35 miles and a long distance call away. we'd log in 1 saturday night each month; everything took quite a while to download, even with our speedy-for-the-time 2400bps modem, but mostly because we'd keep losing the connection and having to start over. ran up our phone bills a lot, but we downloaded a lot of useful/fun games, and hung out on its forums some, too.
Oh I remember getting into a lot of trouble with my parents for running up big bills on Q-Link. It was just too tempting though to spend hours and lose track of time.
The follow-up episode covering the rest of America Online's history is now availabe!
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Great video! I even learned a few things!
Sorry to zombiepost, but why did another popular retro youtuber comment on LGR and no one said anything? Well, I love the stuff both of you guys do.
Who knows
I found it remarkable that those early entrepreneurs have tried the online subscription model of games, and music way back then... course the technology just wasn't good enough to run smoothly.
@@lordofthecats6397 it's called necroing
Ive started to show LGR techtales to my students. The only lesson they all love to attent.
Nice!
Engel that's awesome
Can I be in your class, please?
Best Teacher Ever, presenting techtales to studentsis good :-)
@@LGR I truly applaud you for being a walking wikipedia for retro tech in this day and age. I also envy your truly massive library.
I want there to be a law that your content is mandatory learning for computer courses
Growing up in the 80's, I have nothing but the fondest memories of Qlink. They were the first to feature email and instant messages. They had weekly events in their "auditorium" which at times contained hundreds of other users. I remember the beloved emcee "RJScott". I was addicted to playing Name that Tune and won many "Q-pons" (redeemable for game time) from it. In the early 90's as the Commodore 64 fell out of use, the population of Q-Link dwindled and I left around 1993. The service ended permanently in 1994. But I have nothing but the warmest memories of all those lonely nights as a confused teen being kept company by all those wonderful people on Q-Link.
Awesome video, and even as a kid in late 87 I was a user of Q-Link on my C128 as it came on the back of the GEOS software, and it was AWESOME!!! with a Commodore 1670 modem(1200 baud). I was lucky because the South Carolina # for GEOS for me at the time was a local call(you found the #'s in the book that came with the software), so no long distance fees ever showed on my parents bill lol!, and the expense of per hour was total worth it for the interaction I got from other people at the time, and being able to show it off to my friends. Also I to note the Q-Link was online till mid 1994 if I remember correctly, but I used it up till around early 92 once users started dropping off big time, and I was moving onto a DOS/Win 3.11 PC. Good times indeed. :-)
I love these man, honestly if it wasn't for you I'd never know about this stuff or probably even care. If you ever wonder if your sub base is based off of just other classic PC nerds know that isn't the case and you're actually creating new interests for people! That's a big accomplishment man, and we're happy for ya
Thanks a lot!
It made me interested in old computers, not sure about other people
Just want to let you know that every Friday when I get off from my double shifts your videos make my night, I always look forward to watching these and unwinding after a long days work. Thanks for all of the hard work you put into your videos!
Sure thing, I'm glad you're enjoying :)
About time somebody did a good video about Q-Link. It was awesome and should not be forgotten.
Ahh the best series in LGR's arsenal returns
espurious well thrifts is good but common man, this is just awesome. At Least the script and the production quality is.
espurious Nope
This series is what led me to subscribe to LGR in the first place. The production value is impressive.
Tech Tales beats the pants off Thrifts. I like Thrifts, but I actually learn stuff from Tech Tales.
Same with me.
I'm really addicted to the tech tales series! Whenever you post a new one I rewatch all the old ones, over and over and it never gets boring! Not a techie really, but the way you present it gets me hooked! Keep up the AWESOME work!
Thanks, I'm glad you're enjoying!
do u enjoi H&CF?
It's funny, because one of the techs working on those first Apple computers had a system all worked out to let the computers communicate with one another over long distances. Jobs made him remove it because he wanted to keep things simple almost to a fault. It's the same reason they had those one-button mice among other things.
M. Wells Jobs made some astoundingly short sighted decisions, especially in the early days. He is why Lisa, and it's counterparts, could never match the Apple II series controlled primarily by Woz's imput.
EximiusDux the 90s, or as we called it Apple's Jobs-less period
Dude, fantastic production, love the history!
Thank you!
Your passion for tech history is so wonderful! I really love these kind of videos you do. I know a lot of work must go into getting the history just right as well as finding the perfect photos to complement your narration.
Always looking forward to your videos no matter what the topic.
Thank you! Heh, finding the right visuals and photos are half of the work on these.
FOREAL if you make a videos reviwing noodles and just eating them for 18 min str8 i would watch and be very happy about it! great work man!! still have the floppy u signed for me!!!
I love your videos. Everything from informative history to chilled out adventures to the local thrift shops.
Thank you!
With every new episode of Tech Tales Im even more amazed how well researched "Halt & Catch Fire" is
It really is fun to watch for that reason alone.
I love LGR Tech Tales! They are my absolute favorite content from Lazy Game Reviews! I wish the episodes were a television series!
Thanks! Watch these on your TV and presto: instant television series ;)
Lazy: u funny
Lazy Game Reviews But there are less ads! D:
Been watching you on my vizio tv for a while now. XD Good ole hdmi to pc video card.
Now I have the urge to play Apple IIe Oregon Trail again. Green & white "colors" only!
and your Vizio TV has been watching you...
Damn! You left it off on a cliffhanger, I was really getting into that story too. But that means you did a terrific job on this, now I can't wait for the next part to come out.
This is awesome! Just as all of the other content, I didn't think Tech Tales would keep getting better but man somehow I feel every-time you've tightened the screws even more every-time.
Might as well consider every instance of Tech Tales a professionally done tech documentary at this point.
TH-cam is too lucky to have creators like you.
Thanks for the kind words :)
Comes easy with content like this man!
Cheers!
Very cool. I am a former QLink user myself and it was interesting to learn about how it came to be. There was actually an attempt a few years back to reverse engineer the QLink protocols in an attempt to resurrect that service from a nostalgic perspective, but it likely got shot down hard by AOL.
you mean qlink reloaded?
Gameline.
That dude was way ahead of his time.
_Too_ far ahead of his time, the poor guy died broke and in debt :/ Will get to that next episode.
I'll look forward to it, broheem.
Jesus christ, that's really sad. Dude deserved better than that.
It sounds pretty crazy, but the GameLine wasn't even the first device to let you do this. A similar service for the Intellivision called PlayCable came onto the market a couple of years before the GameLine. The problem was that neither really worked very well, hence why DLC for game consoles didn't really become a thing until 25 or so years later.
@@eddiehimself When was this?
Man, this video had such an amazing production quality, all I have to say is good work and keep pumping out the good content man!
Thank you!
tasting pizza for pizza hut in my own House sounds like a hell of a job...
Where I apply at?
Edward Bell they hire people to do that kind of quality control through companies dedicated to consumer testing.
@@TheTogoRojo i believe a lot is done in house they have teams in kitchens
I know right? That's like the dream right there.
Gameline was nearly the Steam of the 80's. Very cool.
Man, they had so much cool ideas back then, really impressive to see how the basically thought about programs that were like Spotify, Steam, Second Life and other platforms when internet barely existed.
This brings back the memories, I used q-link in the early days.. It was pretty cool at the time. Thanks for this vid, haven't thought about this stuff in years.
a lot of this stuff was just a few decades too soon but is now used daily, for example the music streaming!
Coming home after walking in the rain to see probably my favorite content creator uploaded a video into probably my favorite of his series. It's a good day!
Have just binge watched all your tech history/Tech Tales videos and they are just fantastic! Amazing research, great narrative and narration and you're bringing much-needed attention to ground-breaking moments in tech without which, none of us would be sitting here on TH-cam. Or on the internet. Or on desktop PCs. Or laptops. Or tablets. Or smart phones. Please keep up the fantastic work!
Tech Tales is my favorite thing on youtube. Been looking forward to the AOL episode for a long time. Would also love to see tales of Prodigy and CompuServe, both of which I had at one point. Thank you!
First ISP was AOL, was not informed that by setting up my contact number as a 913 number, it would be considered long distance from Kansas City, (I live in a 913, but back then AOL considered that Topeka), so my 1st phone bills had long distance charges on them, later changed the contact to 816 (Kansas City, MO), which dropped the long distance. I liked AOL at 1st, but later found it limiting & they were always trying to sell you something when you logged in.
Nice work. Amazing how much stuff changed by the time I got a PC in 1994.
0:13 OMG, holy f***, that is my childhood. I haven't seen that screen in thirty years; I'd forgotten what it looks like, and the awe I felt upon first seeing it. Thank you for bringing me back to that!
See...
This is why no other Friday will ever be better than today.
This channel. Being perfect.
I think most people forget just how frustrating modems were back in the 80s with the slow connections, drop outs and KERMIT like interfaces. I swore I would not get a modem until it became reliable. And that didn't come till the mid 90s for me.
Okay, that was extremely interesting. This is the kind of information I spend hours trying to figure out through research and you summed so much info up in 12 minutes.
I spend all day at my monotonous job and listen to your videos, I can't thank you enough
Can't wait for the AOL Episode!
A company with one concept that changed a whole lot.
Very impressive and another of your great videos, Clint.
I remember getting all of these online service trials when you'd buy a new modem - for every birthday or holiday I'd get the latest modem starting with a 110 baud VIC Modem all the way through my late teens when I got a 9600 baud Hayes modem!
Cool - at 4:00 there was a picture of an ADM 3+ - I used to buy those at blind auction from my University - fix/repair them and add a 1200 baud modem and "rent" them to other students for pizza/beer money. Great terminals - they weren't 100% VT100 compatible but they worked well enough to dial in to campus machines (VAX or AT&T Unix) to do lab work for your classes. Awesome.
tech tails is my favorite. Can you do Netscape Navigator?
Excellent video! Tech Tales showcases the best of your online series, and I thoroughly enjoy them. Keep up the good work!!
This episode was very informative, it is information that I always wondered about. Keep up these tech tales.
i like your videos, and how in depth you go on the computers history. also i like the way you talk, calmly and slow, this is good for foreign people so we can understand better.
8-Bit Guy, TechMoan, AND LGR. I'm happy I didn't have to go to work tonight :D you should totally do a Q&A since the 500,000 subs just hit.
I really liked this Tech Tales episode! I wish I could experience these early technologies like Q-link when they were new and something exciting.
I love it! I still have the Quantum-Link demo disk that came w/ my mint c64
Great episode, I love the tech-tales series.I can almost smell the mahogony effect plastic and the burning transistors from here.
Thanks for this. I still remember the Qlink ads in Compute's Gazette, RUN and Ahoy! magazines.
This is awesome. I can't wait for the next installment! AOL opened the door to the world wide web for so many people who used it and remember it, and its history is pretty fascinating (at least by how it's portrayed here). Gah, so many awesome memories, and who couldn't forget about AOHell, Netbus, SubSe7en, and other proggerz that were easily injectable via AOL/AIM? Those were the days.
Man I LOVE Tech Tales so much, all of your topics are so interesting and well presented. I can't wait for the AOL one because god damn I remember using that shit.
I was about to post a comment like "we thought twitch streamers and youtube stars these days had fun home-jobs, that guy somehow made a living eating pizza" then I realized, like a sloth with a lightbulb slowly illuminating above his head, that you were just humorously saying he was a slacker with no job. Amazing.
Wasn't kidding at all, that was his actual job. He called it "The Marketing Group" and ran it out of his apartment :)
Heh, I remember getting a 1200 baud modem for my C64 and it came with the Quantum Link software (this was back in late 1993 or early 94). I tried it out and got the message that it was now owned by AOL. Eventually (since I still didn't have an IBM-type yet), I was able to connect to the local Greater Columbus Freenet (someone should really do an article on the various freenets from back in the day) using Telix 3.2.1 installed on a 5 1/4" floppy.
That enabled me to surf the (non GUI) internet, get Usenet, receive e-mail and do WAIS searches for an hour at a time, or two hours over a 24-hr period. All on an aging Commodore 64 and a 1200 baud modem. I still have some printouts from 1995 using GCFN and a dot-matrix printer :)
This is one of the best Tech Tales videos yet. I can't wait for the next one. Speaking of next things... NeXT would be a good subject for Tech Tales.
Keep up the good work!
Tech Tales is easily my favorite thing on this channel.
I miss these days of competition. Awesome video Clint.
You have some great pictures and video clips. I love those images of people using old computers and we get a great story too.
Oh my god! Thank you so much man, I had given up hope on seeing another one of these! Bad ass, and kudos on another great episode of this awesome series!!
Love Tech Tales and Thrifts. Two of my favourite playlists to keep on.
This is one of my favorite series of yours, very educational. Thank you Clint!
Awesome, glad you're enjoying them!
Wow, having done a lot of research on this on a boring week a few years ago, it's sure great to see you covering this! Thanks!
Oh man, can't wait for Part 2. This was such an interesting, informative video!
One of the most unique too.
The Osmond family: the original Napster
I seriously love these video, Clint, you rock!
Thank you, I'm glad you're enjoying!
This was a great and informative video Clint, can't wait until the follow up of this one. Keep them coming!
Lets be real: The last name Meister is really badass sounding.
I just looked him up and found out that he was a German Count - he was Head of the House of Meister, therefore a Prussian lord, and held the title of His Highness.
It's German for master
I remember the red envelope QLink disks came in. I was so excited when it finally arrived.
I loved this episode!!
When you started to mention Email, I got excited. Aaron Fechter, a robotics inventor, developed a way to send mail over the telephone lines in 1985. He never figured out how to market his stuff, so it never really got out there.. he called it "The Ant-Gravity Freedom Machine".. I believe he is still active with his robots(which used to play at ShowBiz Pizza) and the company "Creative Engineering"..you should check them out, really interesting stuff. :-)
I remember sitting with my bro surfing on BBS on his C64, those where the days.
Well done getting to 500k subscribers! With content as good as this, that achievement isn't surprising. :)
I missed tech tales so much! thank you for posting another video!
I played with Q-Link on my Commodore 64 as a kid. Man this video brought me back. :)
This is basically the plot for Season 2 of Halt and Catch Fire!
Before the internet I used to go on a BBS' called Ned's Opus. You could download cracked games, images, and even really basic GIFs (which blew our minds). I remember a GIF of the TNG enterprise shooting in a loop and it was amazing.
I remember finding out about Habitat, reading about it in one of my uncle's old computer magazines.
awesome! really good storytelling, cool facts and so much fun to watch. thank you!
Tech Tales! Such a great series, thanks Clint!
Q-Link is really damn impressive and I never even heard of it before. I never used a C64 before either and only in the past several years started actually seeing more Commodore 64 games in action because of Psychedelic Eyeball. What a great computer that was even if it was starting to show its age seemingly when IBMs started to come around. I'll definitely be interested in your AOL video since I lived through that and used it.
Oh man, this video got me excited for the next one. Great job setting up the hype!
Cant wait for the AOL episode
I remember using Q-Link back in the 80's! My social life - which sucked in High School - flourished as I met more introverted people who didn't fit in with the Jocks, Gearheads, or the Preps. We formed alliances and planned to dominate the world in the future! ;-)
My first exposure to Q-Link was a supplement to a copy of GEOS. Eventually I became a regular in Bonnie's Bar and RabbitJack's Casino.
I have really enjoyed watching your Tech Tales series. Keep up the great videos! :D
Yes, an LGR video inboxed while I was watching an Ashens video. It's a good start to the day:)
We had CompuServe in Switzerland in the late 90s iirc. They also shipped their custom browser with built-in mail client (similar to the Netscape suite).
these videos are a joy to watch. you deserve more views .
Wow another episode, thanks I was wainting for it! greetings from Venezuela :)
Another great Tech Tales, Clint.
glad to see another episode of LGRs best series.
Good start start to a 2 part episode, I was hoping it would cover all the aol history in one episode, but oh well... thanks for the info thus for Clint
I was hoping so too, but the video would've been like 45 minutes long then. Too much for me to take on at one time with the schedule that I have.
I understand Clint No worries, watched the second half a couple days ago, good job, this must have been hard to research... Thanks for the work in this one
I watch you and The 8bitguy all the time, subbed to you both :)
You're very informative.I can't wait till you do AOL.
You and the Nostalgia Nerd should do more videos together. You guys are the best!
Man, Qlink was my jam. Nothing like setting your phone handset on that little 300baud modem cradle.
we had q-link for our c64! 4 free hours/month; nearest dial-up server 35 miles and a long distance call away. we'd log in 1 saturday night each month; everything took quite a while to download, even with our speedy-for-the-time 2400bps modem, but mostly because we'd keep losing the connection and having to start over. ran up our phone bills a lot, but we downloaded a lot of useful/fun games, and hung out on its forums some, too.
TECH TALES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Always a good day when a new one drops, thank you!
Oh I remember getting into a lot of trouble with my parents for running up big bills on Q-Link. It was just too tempting though to spend hours and lose track of time.
Especially plus services like People Connection.
This series is by far my favorite along with Oddware. I think this is the third time I've watched this!
Thumbs up-ed this video before even watching it because LGR Tech Tales are *always* GOLD!
Fantastic episode, Clint. Can't wait for the AOL follow-up!
Love your videos, can't wait for the next one. Seems like AOL eh? that was my prime time. I cant wait for you to cover that.
Tremendously interesting video! I am always interested in internet history. Thank you very much, Clint!