Just sharing a data point and thought on the matter.

In 1989, a Prodigy user could opt-in to a searchable member database, and could also create mailing lists of friends. It’s not quite the social graph modern social networks have, but I think it qualifies as an ancestor. I suspect its contemporaries like CompuServe had similar facilities.

If that manual isn’t scanned, floppies imaged, and on archive org already I’m sure there’s a bunch of people that would love to see it!

There’s an effort to preserve TBBS and add-ons going. It’ll all make it to TBBS.org at some point. There is a discord chat linked there.

TBBS was actually a pretty amazing piece of software - I’ve been pouring over a disassembly of it just for educational value. I love MajorBBS equally, though. It even had native x.25 support. Just amazing what was accomplished on DOS back in the day!

Me too, for about 15 seconds 😂

There’s a discord linked on TBBS.org where there’s a few dozen TBBS enthusiasts if you get the nostalgia itch…

I believe there were close to 4000 in attendance at ONE BBSCON 1994! Btw there are a couple videos that may interest you… youtu.be/_nxi0vApcbc?... and youtu.be/7hzf9qOVkSM?...

That’s great, and will do. I have a MajorBBS with real x.25 hardware here, so I have a soft spot for BBSes too!

It’s all good, happy to lend any assistance you need with Prodigy when you get to preparing an exhibit.

Nice presentation! If you’re not already aware, Qlink, AOL, and Prodigy are all in various states of revival. See quantumlink.net prodigyreloaded.com and search for “P3OL” (the AOL revival).

No worries, a pretty tall order to keep files from 30 years ago!

A long shot, but if you still have files from that 486, C:\PRODIGY\*.DAT will help the project…

You may also like to visit www.prodigyreloaded.com and join the discord (linked under “get involved “)