Retro Tech Tuesday: Prodigy Service

"And it even had an encyclopedia!"

That's really the message that's driven home in today's retro find. It's a 30-second commercial for the Prodigy service. For those who weren't around, there was a time when the internet was actually called CompuServe, America Online, and Prodigy. (Ok, that's an exxageration, but for most people going "online" referred to one of those three services.)

It's hard to believe in this age of Wikipedia, we were supposed to be blown away by the fact that Prodigy's encyclopedia was updated quarterly, "so it's never out of date!"

Ah, how young and naive we were: