Answer by ahcks for What did AOL use for pre-web GUI client?
AOL was based on Quantum Link, which ran on Commodore 64s and which in turn was based on PlayNet software.By 90s, it was expanded to include The Remote Automated Information Manager or RAINMAN, which...
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Answer by bjb for What did AOL use for pre-web GUI client?
In addition to Stephen Kitt's answer, you can go back even further from Windows 3.1 to the Apple II version of America Online, circa 1989. Certainly not as popular or long-lived as the MS-DOS and...
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Answer by Stephen Kitt for What did AOL use for pre-web GUI client?
AOL provided (and still provide) their own client, which — at least back then — was called “America Online”. This was available on a variety of platforms, including DOS:(based on GeoWorks) and Windows 3:
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AOL was a big early Internet service provider, and of course by the late nineties, the most popular Internet protocol was the web; most users spent most of their Internet time in a web browser.But if...
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