Photo: Apple Confidential May 20, 1988: Apple launches AppleLink Personal Edition, a user-facing online service that lets customers connect using a Mac-style user interface. Years before Apple will ...
You young whippersnappers out there, pull up a chair and let me tell you about a more innocent time. Way before you could connect to the internet out of thin air, you had to use what was called a dial ...
June 20, 1994: Apple launches eWorld, a subscription service for Mac owners that’s designed to compete with America Online and other nascent online properties. Part messaging service and part news ...
AOL’s chief architect and most-senior employee Joe Schober talked to Time Techland about his history working on AOL chat rooms, starting in 1988 with AppleLink’s “Samuel” beta test. AOL’s chief ...