Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 6:06AM According to the YouTube poster MisterSenseless, this video was part of a CD-Rom packaged along with a phone modem. Yes, the visuals are "so 90's," but just as much fun to me is to see and hear what is clearly an early QuickTime codec: if you watched much video on your computer back then, the saturated colors, not-quite-crisp audio, and blocky movement will take you right back:
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 6:47AM "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we were supposed to be blown away by the fact that Prodigy's encyclopedia was updated quarterly, "so it's never out of date!"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: