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		kevin_thibedeau on Jan 6, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 M... They were a successful online service before the internet. Yes. They were just as cool as Compuserve and Prodigy.

lmm on Jan 7, 2024 [–]

By the time of the merger with Time Warner they were a joke among technical people. They were in the same category as Compuserve and Prodigy, but marketed specifically as an "easy" service for less technical users.

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