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content available for members. In a letter to members, Prodigy explained that upgrades to
Prodigy Classic to resolve its Y2K issues were just too expensive and that it felt investing in Prodigy Internet was the best long-term strategy, as many of the popular services offered by Prodigy Classic could be found elsewhere. This decision was consistent with what other online service providers (AOL, CompuServe, MSN) were doing at the time. Still, with these providers competing primarily on ease of ISP setup rather than exclusive content, the retention value was lost. Many members found more affordable ways to access the online content and services they were used to.
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subscribers could purchase additional messages. Later, Prodigy divided its service into "Core" and "Plus" sections. Core section usage remained unlimited, but Plus sections were limited by usage time. Subscribers were afforded a monthly allotment of Plus time, but if that time was exceeded, the subscriber would incur additional charges based on usage time. A blue indicator in the bottom-right corner of the screen indicated the subscriber's section.
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in the mid-nineties. Numerous shows were devoted to it. In addition, Howard met face-to-face with people he had talked to in
Prodigy chat groups under a pseudonym. Howard was the most prominent radio name in America, gaining excellent ratings at the time. So it could only have been a positive for the
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Prodigy's first web presence, Astranet, was released shortly afterward. Astranet was to be a web-based news and information service supported partly by advertising. However, the site was considered experimental and incomplete. Another innovation was Skimmer, a market trial ISP
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January 1991, Prodigy modified its basic subscriber plans by allowing only 30 free email messages each month, while charging 25 cents for each additional email message, a policy that was later rescinded. In the summer of 1993, it began charging hourly rates for
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bought a 43% interest in the company, and
Prodigy became the exclusive provider to SBC's 77 million high-speed Internet customers. More than a year later after the launch of Prodigy Broadband (conceived and led by Chris Spanos), SBC bought controlling interest for $ 465 million when Prodigy was the
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had one million, but was used mainly from passive low-cost ASCII/Teletex terminals). Accessed
February 4, 2008. "Prodigy has become the second-largest and fastest-growing computer-information company since it was introduced in 1988. It has 465,000 subscribers, compared with more than 600,000 for
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articles and test reports, games for children and adults, in-depth original features called "Timely Topics", bulletin boards moderated by subject matter experts, movie reviews and email. Working with
Heilbrunn in the early stages of Prodigy's design, Bob Bedard pioneered the business model for
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The price increases prompted an increase of "underground IDs" by which multiple users would share a single account and manipulate the email service to act as private bulletin boards. This was accomplished by sending emails to intentionally invalid addresses containing the name of the intended
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In 1999 the company, now led by a cadre of ex-MCI executives to turn the brand around, became Prodigy Internet, marketing a full range of services, applications, and content, including dial-up and DSL for consumers and small businesses, instant messaging, e-mail, and communities.
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Prodigy's legacy architecture was novel at the time and anticipated much of current web-browser technology. It leveraged the power of the subscriber's PC to maintain the session state, handle the user interface and process applications formed from data and interpretative
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recipients. The service would return the emails, which were not billed, and users of the shared account would find the returned messages there. Replies were sent by entering the name of the first sender as the addressee, which would again trigger a return of the message.
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communication between users. The popularity of Prodigy's message boards caused users to remain connected to the service far longer than had been projected. This resulted in escalating expenses that adversely affected the service's cash flow and profitability.
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connections for its initial rollout and offered low-cost 2,400 bit/s internal modems to subscribers at a discount to provide faster service and stabilize the diverse modem market. The host systems used were regionally distributed
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and reusable common code modules on Prodigy end-user diskettes, millisecond "click-to-available-cursor" response times were achieved that were otherwise unachievable in 1986 over slow 1,200-to-2,400 bit/s modems.
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in which the network caches its most frequently accessed content as close as possible to the users. The company sold private versions of it within customers' private corporate networks.
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4148:Internet service providers of Mexico
4084:Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
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1542:Olsen, Stefanie (December 9, 2005).
1226:Alsop, Stewart (November 15, 1993).
1164:Crockett, Barton (22 October 1990).
950:Peter H. Lewis (November 29, 1994).
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547:threatened to leave Prodigy behind.
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2237:AT&T Building (Davenport, Iowa)
1717:Product Design Document for Prodigy
1316:"SBC and Prodigy Announce Alliance"
1000:"At Age 9, Prodigy On-Line Reboots"
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1172:. IDG Network World Inc: 19,22.
1140:"Y2K Shuts Down Prodigy Classic"
1028:. September 13, 1982. p. 6.
980:, September 6, 1990 (The French
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2171:AT&T Tower (Minneapolis)
2156:AT&T Long Lines Building
2146:AT&T Huron Road Building
1076:. May 21, 1984. p. 113.
785:In late 2006, SBC purchased
493:become some of the earliest
349:Systems Network Architecture
300:and telecommunications firm
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3062:Consolidated Communications
2892:Consolidated Communications
2136:AT&T Center (St. Louis)
2131:AT&T Center (Milwaukee)
2101:AT&T Building (Detroit)
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2009:AT&T Business Internet
1702:Recreation of the Prodigy
1568:. AT&T. Archived from
1458:Nocera, Joe (2018-08-13).
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551:Conversion to a true ISP
502:content delivery network
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2014:AT&T Small Business
1994:BellSouth Long Distance
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1668:at VintageComputing.com
1655:Prodigy Service Preview
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2942:OneLink Communications
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2252:AT&T at the Movies
2019:AT&T Cybersecurity
1842:Michael B. McCallister
1677:, a Prodigy math game
1614:obituary for Ted Papes
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799:White Plains, New York
661:White Plains, New York
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168:February 13, 1984
4138:AT&T subsidiaries
4052:The Industry Standard
4001:Irrational exuberance
1897:Randall L. Stephenson
1782:Alexander Graham Bell
1544:"Prodigy up for sale"
1531:U.S. patent 6,275,852
1501:U.S. Patent 5,347,632
1487:U.S. Patent 6,199,100
1472:U.S. Patent 5,594,910
850:– formerly SBC Yahoo!
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314:Ridgewood, New Jersey
310:Fair Lawn, New Jersey
3950:Vignette Corporation
3748:The Learning Company
2616:Dean Witter Reynolds
2460:Richard Warren Sears
2455:Alvah Curtis Roebuck
2186:Europe India Gateway
2176:Asia-America Gateway
2141:AT&T City Center
1902:Laura D'Andrea Tyson
787:AT&T Corporation
464:AT&T Corporation
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4045:Conspiracy of Fools
4038:Blood on the Street
3905:Tradex Technologies
3518:Akamai Technologies
3467:Kaleil Isaza Tuzman
3082:Greenlight Networks
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2517:Harry B. Cunningham
1711:Prodigy Communicate
1612:Wall Street Journal
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714:distributed objects
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3648:Epidemic Marketing
3092:Lumen Technologies
2962:SRT Communications
2897:Cox Communications
2724:PayLess Drug Store
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1388:Real Estate Weekly
1369:Real Estate Weekly
1286:The New York Times
1209:The New York Times
1204:"Computer Concern"
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1827:Glenn H. Hutchins
1511:Riordan, Teresa.
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