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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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Remember Q-Link

With the 20th anniversary of its birth approaching, and nearly a decade after its untimely (and, many thought, needless) death at the hands of its own offspring, the experience once provided by this pioneering online community remains unique in many ways

Remember Q-Link!

By Al Evans

aka UNCLE AL, QGUIDE ae, etc.

Revised and rewritten July, 2002

 QGUIDE ae's Saturday morning Lobby on Q-Link. SquidAgain is entertaining the room with his graphics skills (and buttering up the QGuide).

Quantum Link was one of the earliest online services. Using software licensed from the creators of a still-earlier service called PlayNET, Quantum Link (whose name members quickly shortened to “Q-Link”, or just plain “Q”) was opened to the public on November 5, 1985. Q-Link was America Online’s direct predecessor, but you’d be hard-pressed to find evidence of that on AOL. (For more about the PlayNET/Q-Link/AOL connection, click here to read a Commodore Knowledge Base article written by one of PlayNET’s original programmers.)

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