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@Atticus Herodes

History Prodigy Online and Censorship Issue

Atticus with a customary rant And Discussion about Prodigy online Censroship

issues and what we did when they refused to fix an Issue that just got worse. #History

Snippet of Article from TechRepublic. https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/classics-rock/prodigy-the-pre-internet-online-service-that-didnt-live-up-to-its-name/

Send in the censors

In 1991 Prodigy management decided to censor content. It probably began as an idea for reducing message traffic, but Prodigy started banning negative comments about advertisers and then any public comments about advertisers. Additionally, Prodigy banned profanity and anything else that might offend anybody. Next came a ban on flame wars among members. Soon the service literally outlawed postings that mentioned another member by name.

Eventually every message was examined by censors, and any that violated the rules were deleted. It was a Sisyphean task, and they overdid it. For example, members couldn't use the word "bitch" in a dog breeders' forum. And supposedly discussions of the Roosevelt dime were deleted from a coin-collector's board because there was a member whose screen name was "Roosevelt Dime."

Prodigy members were incensed. Thousands fought back by organizing users into underground e-mail groups. Conversation threads were picked up from the boards and circulated in listserv fashion, with each participant adding comments and passing them on. It was like having to send USENET newsgroups to thousands of recipients several times a day. E-mail traffic swelled to staggering proportions.

Prodigy returned fire with a limit on e-mail messages. If you sent more than 30 messages per month, you had to pay five cents per message. Carbon copies cost a quarter. And the flat rate went up to $14.95. Some members wrote Prodigy advertisers in protest and had their accounts cancelled.

other sources

My memory

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/where-online-services-go-when-they-die/374099/

https://www.fastcompany.com/3033037/resurrecting-prodigy-the-worlds-proto-internet

https://www.zdnet.com/article/before-the-web-online-services/

https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-prodigy-internet/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB126335118860527243

@Atticus Herodes

IRC in an AOL like wrapper

Feeling Old want to relive the old internet? Want to search the net? Chat with a few buds, send an EMAIL and listen to that super relaxing dial up Sound.#Irc

An overview of a Project AOL wrapper to chat on Snoonet IRC.https://github.com/erfg12/AOL_4.0_Emu

#aol,#america online,#chat,#internet,#tech,#technology

@Atticus Herodes

I am Back with updates

My upcomming plans my projects. And other updates😚

Letting every one know that I am here to stay again.

@b∞yaka

COSTV

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Kometes Drift- OM Booyakamix

#house

Kometes Drift- OM Booyakamix this is my new track that i just got done in the 2020knockdown

Streaming + Download

https://booyakamix.bandcamp.com/track/kometes-drift-om-booyakamix

https://booyakamix.blogspot.com/

@b∞yaka

The Days - booyakamix

#DNB

Got some free loop from loopcloud so i made this track i called it The Days - booyakamix

Streaming + Download

https://booyakamix.bandcamp.com/track/the-days-om-booyakamix

B∞yaka Mix

https://cos.tv/channel/15237852936972288

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Disciples & Lee Foss - Only The Gods (Ft. Anabel Englund)

#house

Disciples & Lee Foss - Only The Gods (Ft. Anabel Englund)

@shadow12345

Its A jungle out there protesters vs police