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Prodigy was the service that launched ESPN's online presence. [4] Prodigy quickly implemented application standard code modules loaded from diskette. These modules relied upon real-time tokenized data from Prodigy database servers to drive core Prodigy service functionality on local user PCs.
The Sierra Network (TSN), later rebranded as the ImagiNation Network (INN), was an online service launched in 1991 by Sierra On-Line. [1] First developed in 1989 and launched to the public in 1991, it offered subscribers a unique online space to play games and socialize, billing itself as a "cyberspace theme park."
CompuServe was initiated during 1969 as Compu-Serv Network, Inc. [a] in Columbus, Ohio, as a subsidiary of Golden United Life Insurance. [5]Though Golden United founder Harry Gard Sr.'s son-in-law Jeffrey Wilkins is widely miscredited as the first president of CompuServe, its first president was actually John R. Goltz. [6]
An online service provider (OSP) can, for example, be an Internet service provider, an email provider, a news provider (press), an entertainment provider (music, movies), a search engine, an e-commerce site, an online banking site, a health site, an official government site, social media, a wiki, or a Usenet newsgroup.
Although it for years was the second-largest service provider after CompuServe, GEnie failed to keep up when Prodigy and America Online produced graphics-based online services that drew the masses. Programs such as Aladdin, which had been developed earlier by an independent developer and eventually supported by GEnie, helped many of the ...
Rebel Space was the second play-by-email game offered as part of a major commercial online service. It ran on Prodigy from 1992 to 1995. The game was developed by Stormfront Studios, designed by Don Daglow and programmed by Mark Buchignani.
The book Parents, kids & computers describes P rodigy s version of Carmen Sandiego as "a sort of online Carmen miniseries that changes from time to time". [10] It was often used as a major selling point of the Prodigy service to parents, [11] and advertised as "your kids' personal tutor' [12] and for "adventure and role-playing enthusiasts". [13]
Prodigy was an online service provider that was launched in 1988 as a partnership between IBM, Sears, and CBS. It was one of the earliest online services that offered access to email, news, and other features.