Remember when Prodigy was "the bomb!?"The history of the creation of the Internet is still relatively young (less than 50 years) but quantum leaps have happened to transform the information superhighway into what it is today. The Internet is as transportable as we are with cell phones, laptops, and even our iPod's.This was hard to imagine for many people only a decade ago.
Does anyone still remember Prodigy, one of the earliest commercial online services that started as a concept around 1980? As a kid, I remember the TV and print advertisements that ran for this service. Did you know that on
this day in 1992, Prodigy announces that it will provide subscribers with access to the Internet, thus becoming the first major online service to let users surf the Web? With the introduction and rapid spread of web browsing programs in 1993, services like Prodigy began to see memberships drop, which forced it and others to become full-service ISPs.Sadly, Prodigy classic was discontinued in late 1999 because its aging software was not Y2K compliant. In perspective, do we still remember all the Y2K hype that started around a decade ago? Man, the Internet has come a long way since the start of the 21st century!
