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I’d like to thank Leslie Miller for her great article about Q-Link which appeared in the February 10, 2000 issue of USA Today. It was a pleasure to be interviewed for the article. :-)

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                           DATE:Tue, 20 Feb 2001 01:29:29                      
                           From:IXIJimIXI@aol.com                                  
                           To:qlinklives@lycos.com

                 It's funny, but I find myself thinking of Qlink when I'm awake this late at night (1
                 am or so). Of course, I guess it's not TOO funny, as this was the time of night
                 when I used Qlink the most, at least during the summertime.

                 I was a member of Qlink from 1989 until around 1991 or so, joining when I
                 was 16.  I was originally drawn to the network by the novelty of being able to
                 talk to people across the country whom I had never met before. It was
                 facinating to talk to people whom I would have never had interacted with
                 before.  What kept me a member though was the sense of community.  I can
                 remember many summer nights where I loaded up the software, grabbed my
                 notebook with my friends' screennames in it, and IMed each of them once I
                 was connected (no buddy lists back then).  With so few members on Qlink, I
                 would always end up running into a friend or Guide I knew. You can't do that
                 these days...it's tough enough to get regulars even in one room on AOL.

                 The feel of those summer nights, with the sound of that 1200 baud modem
                 connecting, myself leaning back and chatting with good friends until Qlink
                 shut off in the morning. Those fond memories, of time well spent with friends
                 long since drifted out of touch, those are memories that will be held in my
                 heart forever. And it's only fitting, for there will never be another place with
                 the soul of QuantumLink.