Talk:Prodigy (online service)
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[edit] Harold Goldes :Prodigy
This man sent me an email where I never forgot his name and what he told me. CBXH97A was his user id and appears to have been the senior technical writer for Prodigy in the early 90's at least.
What he told me, and expressed that he did also to others, is that his proper name is Harold Goldes :Prodigy, I will never forget the colon since I've never seen that before or since. He explained that it was he that Prodigy was named after.
If any of you could think back...I hope I'm not alone having had him reply to my board postings back in that day.
A long time ago, but I feel it had to be said.
In response: Harold Goldes was indeed a Prodigy employee and acted as an ombudsman on some of the forums. I'm sure he was being humorous with the :P attribution. The name change from Trintex to Prodigy was a matter of high marketing policy, taken very seriously by Prodigy's management (and costing a ton of money). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.86.91.198 (talk) 14:48, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Cable Modem access
It looks like cable modems were not available until the mid 90s. They nullifies the claim of 1990 or 1991 cable modem access to prodigy.
In response: Cable modems were available at the time. Prodigy's initial cable model trials were based on experimentation with Zenith's cable modems. "By the mid-1980s, Zenith Cable Products (later known as Zenith Network Systems) was a leading supplier of set-top boxes to the cable industry and a pioneer in cable modem technologies. The 1990s saw this business evolve into a supplier of digital set-top boxes for wired and wireless networks. Zenith sold the network systems division in 2000." http://www.zenith.com/sub_about/about_corp_history.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.86.91.198 (talk) 14:05, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Identified possible original research which may also be wrong
I am tagging the following text as needing citations because even if true, it looks like original research in violation of Wikipedia:No original research:
"At a time when in the state of the art, distributed objects were handled by RPC equivalents (essentially remote function calls to well known servers in which final results were returned to the caller), Prodigy pioneered the concept of actually returning interpretable, "platform independent" objects to the caller for subsequent processing.[citation needed] This approach anticipated such things as Java applets and Javascript.[citation needed] A strong argument can be made that Prodigy pioneered true distributed object-oriented client-server implementations as well as incidental innovations such as the equivalent of HTML Frames, pre-fetch, etc.[citation needed]"
Also, I think it may be wrong. My understanding is that various aspects of OOP client-server interpretations were pioneered at other places like Xerox PARC (e.g. Smalltalk) and SRI's Augmentation Research Center. And the concept of frames goes all the way back to the earliest hypertext systems like NLS and ZOG. Plus Jeff Rulifson dealt with the issue of interpretable platform independent objects to be returned across the network in his concept of a "Decode Encode Language" published in RFC 5 back in 1969. So Prodigy was basically just implementing an idea which had already been bounced around in networking circles for over a decade and a half. --Coolcaesar 20:14, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:10, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] "Prodigy pioneered the concept of Online Communities." simply not true
compuserve sigs were much earlier. there were also delphi round tables... every online service had them. given Coolcaesar's post above, the entire pioneering section is suspect.
[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:New Prodigy Logo (Ball).jpg
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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:26, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:New Prodigy Logo.jpg
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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:26, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Article Name
The name of the article would more appropriately be Prodigy (online service), as it was (and certainly primarily known) as an online service, rather than an ISP.
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