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Comment by VectorLock | Hacker News Reader

I wonder if the Prodigy archives are floating around out there too?

I’ve spent about 3 years looking for it as part of the Prodigy Preservation Project, and I have found a substantial amount of archived corporate email and documentation surrounding the development of the service. Not even close to the volume they have here, though!

If you’re interested to read about it, I have been working on reverse engineering Prodigy. More detail at the following two links…

https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/2921/rev...

https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/3064/rev...

More than archives it would be so amazing if it could be resurrected in some meaningful way. Maybe not totally interactive, but a read-only mode. Even old AOL. Would be great to relive that time.

That would actually be extremely interesting. I remember there are some peaks under the hood of the AOL and Prodigy backend and it was fascinating.

Both Prodigy and AOL I think have fallen into Yahoo's hands now. I wonder if there is a "Department of Ancient Online Services" space at Yahoo.

See the links on the reply above - I hope to have an accessible Prodigy service by late this Summer!

Wowowowowowow. That’s so amazing! Good luck with this project. I’m impressed with what you’ve done so far and can’t wait to see how it turns out!

If it could work with the Mac client I remember it looking a bit different. I’m guessing that was all in the client itself.

It should work with the very oldest Mac client, which I'll test just as soon as I find a 68k emulator with serial/modem emulation.

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