AppleLink was the name of both Apple Computer s online service provider online service for its dealers ... of the Internet , AppleLink was a popular service for Apple Macintosh Mac and Apple IIGS ... lived eWorld and finally today s multiple Apple website s. Early years The original AppleLink ... of his access to AppleLink. In the late 1980s the service was also opened up to software developer ... and suggestions. AppleLink used client software written in Pascal programming language Pascal ... although initially only between AppleLink users. File transfer for drivers and system software was another important role, and for this Apple created the AppleLink Package format to combine and compress ... their Communications Control Language Connection Control Language CCL for AppleLink, a language still used in a very similar form for today s Macintosh modem scripts. The back end of the AppleLink ... Mainframe computer mainframes and worldwide communications Computer networking network . AppleLink ... known as AppleLink Personal Edition , which would be intended for end users until all existing AppleLink content could be moved over and the system proved itself stable enough for support services ... to the real AppleLink, and eventually the service was released instead as America Online. Meanwhile .... All the systems, including the AppleLink community, were united behind the scenes as part of GEIS ..., using addresses like MICHAEL APPLELINK or JOHNDOE GEIS. This was later expanded to include Internet ... into AppleLink , again renamed BusinessTalk System 2000 in 1992. During this time the system, with the Windows ..., the Microsoft Partner Network MSPN . Email from space On August 28, 1991, AppleLink, running on a Macintosh ... Hello Earth Greetings from the STS 43 Crew. This is the first AppleLink from space. Having a GREAT ..., a shuttle communicator at Johnson Space Center . The AppleLink software was configured with a special ..., but exposed to GEIS e mail network as any other AppleLink address. To avoid a deluge of incoming mail ... more details
of eWorld, Apple had started a consumer oriented online support service known as AppleLink .... Quantum wanted to bundle the AppleLink software with new Macs and distribute it through direct marketing ... an Online Services Group. The group licensed the original AppleLink Personal Edition software ... of the previous AppleLink services and a more traditional community service like AOL and CompuServe ... oriented content developed with Apple. The eWorld AppleLink technical support archives moved ... more details
Unreferenced date October 2006 Connect Business Information Network , formerly known as MacNET , was a Property proprietary dial up online network with a Graphical user interface graphic user interface similar to AppleLink . Launch Mike Muller, a former VP of Apple Computer , launched MacNET in 1988. The mainframe end was Computer program program med by Robert Lissner, the author of AppleWorks . The terminal Computer software software , also called MacNET, was sold through List of Macintosh software Macintosh software outlets and the network charged an hourly use fee. Growth and decline Use grew rapidly during the first years, but there was significant competition from America Online when that service launched a year later on the Macintosh platform. Eventually, the MacNET service name and the company name were changed to CONNECT. The software remained MacNET on the Mac side and PCNet came out for the PC market. By the early 2000s, Connect became World Wide Web web based and closed within several years of the widespread adoption of the WWW standard. Category Internet standards Internet stub ... more details
TeleFinder is a Apple Macintosh Macintosh based bulletin board system written by Spider Island Software, based on a client server model whose client end provides a Mac like GUI . It appears to be the first such system on any platform, predating Apple s own AppleLink , as well as other Mac based BBS systems like FirstClass . In more recent years the product has added a complete suite of sub servers for popular internet protocols. External links http tfbbs.com TeleFinder Server The TeleFinder software consists of 2 programs, the Server software Macintosh only and the GUI based client software also called TeleFinder , which is available for both macintosh and Windows based PCs. The TeleFinder Server could also network with other TeleFinder Server BBS computers and share email and forum messages between themselves and also over FidoNet. The TeleFinder Server System Operator SysOp could also use ResEdit a Macintosh resource editor software to create and modify profiles to give their BBS a unique GUI. These profile files were distributed by each BBS for users to download and use with the client software, if they wished to see this GUI. Otherwise, a default GUI was used instead. TeleFinder Server and Client software was originally written by Rusty Tucker with portions by Chris Silverberg and Jim White for Spider Island Software in Irvine, California USA. All artwork by Jim Leftwich of Attention Design. Category Bulletin board system software network software stub ... more details
unreferenced date January 2008 The QuantumLink Serial by Tracy Reed writer Tracy Reed on AOL 1988 89 was the first episodic online story. The series was also known as the PC Link Serial and the AppleLink Serial before all three services were unified when Quantum Computer Services Quantum changed its name to AOL. Unlike ad supported The Spot by Scott Zakarin 1995 97 which also added photographs and video to the concept , the The QuantumLink Serial was included in the price of a monthly subscription to AOL. The QuantumLink Serial was played out in online chat rooms, emails and traditional narrative. After each week s chapter was published on each of the three AOL online services Commodore 64 , IBM PC compatible PC and Apple II Apple Macintosh Macintosh , users wrote to author Reed suggesting how they could be part of the story. Each week Reed chose one to a handful of users on each of the three services and wrote them into the narrative, depicting how they interacted with the story through chat rooms, emails etc. Reed altered story lines to reflect the readers input to the characters, as reflected in their unique custom written guest star appearances. Reed began the story with a series of sample chapters, then pitched the project to AOL founder Steve Case and producer Kathi McHugh . Case bought the project immediately, and within three months The Serial was the highest rated text segment of AOL excluding chat rooms and message boards . The story ran for one year, when the death of Reed s father led to a hiatus for the writer. Both Reed and AOL turned to other projects and the series was not re instituted. The concept was brought back on line in 1995 when The Spot by Scott Zakarin debuted as an ad supported site, adding photos and video to the original QuantumLink Serial model. It was highly successful and ran through 1997. Category Internet television series Internet bcast stub ... more details
Tracy Reed is an United States American writer who created the first episodic online story, the QuantumLink Serial on AOL then called Quantum Computer Services . The series debuted in 1988, and was played out in online chat rooms, emails and traditional narrative. The series also went by the name The AppleLink Serial and The PC Link Serial on those services before they were all unified under the AOL brand when Quantum changed its name. After each week s chapter was published, users wrote to author Reed suggesting how they could be part of the story. Each week Reed chose one to a handful of users on each of the three services and wrote them into the story, depicting how they interacted with the fictional characters. ref Meg Swaine Career Building Through Alternate Reality Gaming New York Rosen Pub, 2008. p. 7 the writer, Tracy Reed, adapted the story to the input of the readers, thereby making them contributors to it. Within three months, it was the highest ranking text segment of AOL http books.google.com books?id 3ml0sar8fV4C&pg PA7&dq 22Tracy Reed 22&lr &num 50&ei galXS4ODE56KzQSPwejeCg&client safari&cd 119 v onepage&q 22Tracy 20Reed 22&f false Google books ref ref http www.electrictheatreco.com 2010 04 our first production the koi pond by tracy reed.html The interactive piece became the 1 rated special feature on the AOL systems Accessed April 30, 2010 ref The project was personally greenlighted by AOL Marketing VP later President Steve Case and produced by Kathi McHugh. Later titles, the most famous of which was The Spot added photos and video to the stories, and introduced the advertising supported model that became standard during the Internet Dot com bubble dot com boom . Reed s work also is a building block in the development of Alternate reality game s. In 2010 a Northern California interactive theater group announced that they were producing a new interactive drama by Reed, The Koi Pond. ref http www.electrictheatreco.com production downhill from the koi p ... more details
TOCright This is a list of Apple Macintosh software which no longer runs on current machines. For example, the software may require Mac OS 9 which does not run on Apple s current Apple Intel architecture Intel machines . Note that most old programs can still be run using emulator s, such as SheepShaver , vMac or Basilisk II . For a list of current programs, see List of Macintosh software , or visit Apple s database at the http guide.apple.com Macintosh Products Guide . Third party databases include http www.versiontracker.com macosx VersionTracker , http www.macupdate.com MacUpdate and http osx.iusethis.com iUseThis . Since a list like this might grow too big and become unmanageable, this list is confined to those programs for which a Wikipedia article exists. Expand list date August 2008 Web Browsers NCSA Mosaic MacWeb MacWWW Cyberdog Netscape Communicator Networking and telecommunications eWorld AppleLink FreePPP MacTerminal ZTerm Developer tools and IDEs Apple Media Tool AppWare CodeWarrior HyperCard Classic only IDE MacApp Macintosh Programmer s Workshop MTropolis Oracle Media Objects THINK C VideoWorks Microsoft BASIC Graphics, layout, and desktop publishing MacDraw MacPaint CorelDRAW CricketPaint CricketDraw FullPaint FullWrite Professional SuperPaint Macintosh SuperPaint Ready,Set,Go Gryphon Software Morph Digital Darkroom Office and productivity AppleWorks originally ClarisWorks Microsoft Works need to check if there is a mac section to link to MindWrite OpenDoc StatView Taste software WriteNow MacWrite MacProject Microsoft Project for Macintosh Nisus Writer WordPerfect WordPerfect for Macintosh WordPerfect for Macintosh Business Claris Resolve CricketGraph Informix Wingz Lotus 123 Multiplan Lotus Jazz Outliners MORE application Acta software Utilities Disinfectant software Disinfectant Antivirus Extensis Suitcase FastBack software Fastback Compression Compact Pro PackIt DiskDoubler Screen Savers After Dark software After Dark Pyro Operating systems A UX App ... more details
when he worked on the UK rollout of the AppleLink service, Apple s pre Web equivalent of AOL ... launched in 1991 on the AppleLink online service, making it the first online science fiction service ... 2009 . The magazine left AppleLink in 1994 to be hosted on the World Wide Web as www.SF fantasy.com ... more details
PowerCADD is a computer aided design computer aided design and drafting CADD software program for the Apple Macintosh platform developed from out of the PowerDraw platform of the mid 1980s by Greensboro, North Carolina based Engineered Software . PowerCADD is a Dimension 2 dimensional , WYSIWYG drawing program developed mainly to reproduce the familiarity of manual technical drawing with the advantages of a full geometry tool set including bezier and computer graphics, allowing the full mix of line art and raster images. PowerCADD is a full metaphor for the design board, providing an elegant easy to learn and easy to use interface, with the integration of both Imperial and Metric dimensioning in familiar real world scales. An add on tool set, called WildTools, was developed by an independent programmer, bringing a number of new capabilities to the program, including Isometric projection isometric and Perspective graphical perspective drawing tools. Both are available in demo form to allow hands on trial use. The current shipping version is PowerCADD 9, which was released August 2010. PowerCADD 9 is an Apple Intel Only application. PowerCADD 7 also still available is an Apple PowerPC only application. History The development of PowerCADD began with PowerDraw , a true CADD alternative to MacDraw that was released in the mid 1980s. The online user group from GEnie that participated in outlining the capabilities of the new CADD program were invited to initiate a graphics forum on Applelink Personal Edition in 1987. Versions PowerDraw 1 for the 680x0 Mac, released September 1987 PowerDraw 2 for the 680x0 Mac PowerDraw 3 for the 680x0 Mac PowerDraw 4 for the 680x0 Mac PowerDraw 5 for the 680x0 Mac PowerDraw 6 for the 680x0 Mac and PowerCADD 1 for the PPC Mac OS 7 then known as Macintosh System 7 PowerCADD 2 released October 1995 PowerCADD 3 released in late 1996 PowerCADD 4 PowerCADD 2000 PowerCADD 5 , released May 2000. Major enhancements to text handling and symbol data ... more details
ad date June 2010 Refimprove date March 2009 Infobox Website name Zap2it logo Commented out because image was deleted Image UrbanDictionarylogo.gif screenshot caption url http www.Zap2it.com Zap2it.com commercial Yes type language English registration owner Tribune Media Services author launch date 2000 current status active revenue slogan What to watch. Where to watch it. alexa 2,600 Zap2it is an American website and affiliate network that provides news, rich photos and video, local program guide TV listing s and movie showtimes. The site is produced by Tribune Media Services TMS , part of the publishing division of the Chicago based Tribune Company . Zap2it affiliates include Cox Enterprises Cox , Dish Network , Disney , The New York Times , the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post . History TMS first began to offer online listings services as a content provider to online pioneers such as Prodigy in the late 1980s and America Online in the early 1990s. TMS launched its first branded online TV listings service TV Quest in 1993 on the AppleLink online service. TV Quest later migrated to Apple s eWorld services and to the Web in the mid 1990s. Version 1.0 of Zap2it debuted on the web in May, 2000. In its earliest iteration, the site was a roll up of TMS owned listings sites TVQuest and MovieQuest plus the then recently purchased content site UltimateTV Online Service UltimateTV . UltimateTV, a recognized leader in the TV space and recipient of accolades from Entertainment Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter and Yahoo , offered fans and industry insiders breaking news, timely Nielsen ratings, live celebrity chats and more. The site was one of the first to showcase network provided video clips, interviews and promos in its appropriately named Promo Lounge area. The earliest Zap2it focused on three areas TV, movies and original web based content. The site was a one stop shop offering original editorial along with listings information for the small screen, the big screen ... more details
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Infobox Software name Claris Emailer screenshot Image Clarisemailerscreen.png 250px caption Emailer screenshot showing mail browser window with folder list and message list pane. br Also toolbar and connection status windows developer Apple Computer latest release version 2.0v3 latest release date January 22, 1998 operating system Mac OS genre E mail client license Freeware , Proprietary software Proprietary website http www.fogcity.com Fog City Software Original developer Claris Emailer often stylized as Claris Em iler was a popular e mail client for the Mac OS created by Fog City Software . It was bought and marketed by the Apple Computer spin off Claris . It supported services such as AOL , Applelink , Compuserve , and many others, including those that support the internet Post Office Protocol . It was the only third party e mail client licensed to directly access AOL e mail. It had advanced e mailing features for its time, such as automatic e mail address completion, an intuitive address book, support for multiple signatures, and a scriptable interface. Many AppleScript s have been written that enhance Emailer and are available online. It was released both in a full and a lite version, and the latter was included for free in Mac OS 8 . It remained a Mac only software title until it was eventually killed by Apple in the late 90s. The last version, 2.0v3, was released in 1998, and the software title is no longer supported by Apple. Emailer continues to work in Classic Mac OS X Classic running under Mac OS X v10.4 Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger . March 2006 To date an Emailer Talk Electronic mailing list mailing list is still active offering advice to keep the software functioning. Versions 1.1v3 Last full Emailer 1.x version as released by Claris. When Em iler 2.0 was delayed, Claris released the full version of 1.1 as freeware. 1.1v4 An update to Emailer Lite to fix a bug in that version otherwise identical to Emailer Lite 1.1v3. It was bundled with Mac OS 8 as well as bei ... more details
Disputed date January 2011 VG History The origin of video game s lies in early cathode ray tube based missile defense systems in the late 1940s. These programs were later adapted into other simple games during the 1950s. By the late 1950s and through the 1960s, more computer games were developed mostly on mainframe computer s , gradually increasing in sophistication and complexity. ref group n Many early video games were lost and no record of their existence remains. ref Following this period, video games diverged into different platforms arcade game arcade , mainframe, console game console , personal computer game personal computer and later handheld video game handheld game s. ref cite web url http radoff.com blog 2010 05 24 history social games title Radoff, Jon 2010 , Brief History of Social Games publisher Radoff.com date accessdate 2011 01 18 ref The first commercially viable video game was Computer Space in 1971 in video gaming 1971 , which laid the foundation for a new entertainment industry in the late 1970s within the United States, Japan, and Europe. The first major crash in Video game console Video game crash of 1977 1977 occurred when companies were forced to sell their older obsolete systems flooding the market. Six years later a North American video game crash of 1983 second, greater crash occurred. This crash brought on largely by a flood of poor quality video games coming to the market resulted in a total collapse of the console gaming industry in the United States, ultimately shifting dominance of the market from North America to Japan. While the crash killed the console gaming market, the computer gaming market was largely unaffected. Subsequent generations of console video games would continue to be dominated by Japanese corporations. Though several attempts would be made by North American and European companies, History of video game consoles fourth generation fourth generation of consoles , their ventures would ultimately fail. Not until the Hi ... more details
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