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Vintage Q-Link (AOL) Promotion Video (1986)

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Uploaded on Jul 10, 2007

A now comical look at the online future. Made for AOL's predecessor, Quantum Link, including Lucas Films Habitat. I got it when I worked for Wunderman, QLink/AOL's first ad agency and I just found it in that box of stuff you move from office to office. In 1987 I became a minor celebrity in virtual world Club Caribe when my Comodore 64 crashed and my avatar stayed in the same place on the island for weeks until I returned - then the entire game crashed.

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  • ddog92841

    I don't see this as comical but as cutting edge for its time

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  • helipilot727

    WAIT this is windows 8 isn't it? I'm confused by that interface!

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  • resmediamarketing

    Q-Link 4Life!

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  • BitgodExperience

    i do ^_^

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  • R. Clark

    Are you serious - it was really 5.00 an hour to use this service..I'm a baby boomer who didn't start using personal computers/internet until around '97'.

    I do remember constantley getting those AOL floppy disks (then changed to CD's) in the mail...

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  • SilverSurfer187

    Seems that user tony at 1:34 is hella trollin lol

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  • ekerazha

    Metro UI at 1:13

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  • Mark Hartman

    What was fake? I lived on Quantum Link when I was a kid! It was the Internet for my generation! We were downloading bitmaps and midi before Bill Gates and Steve Jobs made IPODS. We had these things called Portable CD players and video on CD back then. It's what led to marketing of such devices like the Apple IPOD. Without US there would have been no market for such devices. And yeah we were smart for our age. So I take it you weren't born then and don't know.

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  • Mark Hartman

    I operated one of those BBS's called "The Maze". Do you remember the Star Trek Games back then?

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  • parser9

    as if bill gates had dreams.

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  • parser9

    uhh… it was a joke.

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