[pram]

Prodigy and CompuServe were such weird and unique walled gardens early on. Totally different visions of “the internet” and sadly all that stuff is lost forever.

Later CompuServe became a reskinned AOL (seriously) and Prodigy devolved into a generic dialup service.

[luckystarr]

I only ever used AOL to SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol) onto the net. You had to do some arcane incantations to get it to work, but their connection was solid.