I'd like to thank Leslie Miller for her great article about Q-Link (and this web site), which appeared in the February 10, 2000 issue of USA Today. :-)

One habit I wish I had developed sooner was that of taking pictures of the screen while online. The few pictures� that I did take are below. No one can call them art, but I hope they will bring back a few pleasant memories for you.

This is an example of one of the many system problems that plagued Q-Link during its last year or two of existence. Despite what the room list shows (in yellow), there most definitely was only one of me in the room with Keppler.�(Hi, Dave, wherever you are.)

Paying customers weren�t the only ones upset at the way Quantum/AOL Inc. were allowing Q-Link to fall apart. The post above is from a special message board hidden in the QGuide Center, a secret area on Q-Link that was just for QGuides. Messages posted to this particular board were to be answered only by in-house personnel. This post, asking about the problem with Q-Link�s software libraries,� went unanswered until it scrolled into oblivion. When AOL pulled the plug on Q-Link a year and a half later, the library problems were still unfixed.

Here we have a new System Monitor, JT, introducing himself via OLM while yours truly is issuing a very special chat warning to Ms Mist..� 0;-)

This is yet another example of the strange and bizarre things that were becoming a daily occurance on Q-Link. Look carefully at the screen names down the left side of the screen. Somewhere in that mess, I was on duty as QGUIDE ae, but good luck finding me. The others present included CrazySaint, Tim30, StaceDS Matt018, and BudYasky.

Remember SysOLMs, those ubiquitous messages from Q-Link that would pop up every so often to advertise some special online event that was about to begin? Here�s a rather personal, private SysOLM I received one day. I sure was special. Which is why I�m being told to go away. ;-)

Here is yet another example of the problems that developed on Q-Link: someone speaking with no screen name attached to their words. To make things even more interesting, this happened in a very special private room during a new QGuide�s Hell Night. (Check out the room name in the top left corner.) Unfortunately,� this was the only picture I took during one of these legendary QGuide initiations.

Nothing too funky about this one. Just good friend Lyn doing a very nice SuperQ Qgraphic for my Lobby. :-)�� (Thanks, Lyn!)

This one needs no explanation, right, lms?. ;-X

SquidAgain doing another great Lobby-Logo for me. (Thanks, Joe!) This one and Lyn�s above were both done the same evening. You�ll not see anything like this in any AOL Lobby today: the present AOL software still doesn�t have the graphics capability that the Q-Link software (and SuperQ) had way back in 1992.

That, my friends, is it for now. If I find any more screen shots, I�ll scan and upload them as quickly as I can. In the meantime, I hope you enjoyed my little gallery. :-)

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