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Copyright © 1996-2004 Al Evans. All rights reserved.
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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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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
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Remember Q-Link!
By Al Evans
aka UNCLE AL, QGUIDE ae, etc.
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Revised and rewritten July, 2002
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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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