So just to be clear, or obvious, the retrocomputing section IS going to cover online services, software, etc. It must've been coming into the mid-90s by the time I'd return. I even dual-booted my Linux machine so I could continue to participate in this ecosystem that was like an alternative reality of hackers. It took awhile for my interest to return to this service and that's when a Microsoft Windows version came out with chat rooms and websites. It runs on their native DOSBox so you can run it there or just download the demo yourself and run it on DOSBox, just click the ZIP download on the right of the page. You can view an interesting demo of Prodigy for DOS over at Archive.Org. I didn't stick around Prodigy for DOS very long for the very reason I mentioned is that BBSes were better, BBSes represented the underground where I was dialing in. After all I was young and inspired by text files written by the likes older hackers of the early-mid 80's. It's like reading an old Nintendo Power, still fun. Go back to your more interesting BBSes with their very dark, at times evil ANSI art themed interfaces and lightyears ahead in quality content, even if some outdated.
BBSes (Bulletin Board Systems) still were technically better by comparison of content or interactivity but the DOS version had a nice aesthetic with it's screens, they were very creative and fun to look at, enough to _want_ to navigate around what they had then fuck off and I remember when I first got this service.
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