Welcome to Dial Up, Mashable’s most excellent look at technology ... have needed to log onto the now-defunct online service Prodigy and started playing MadMaze. Before Facebook, before Google ...

So if you’re a Prodigy dial-up user, you’re either relegated to Mac OS 9 for the moment or you’re going to have to find a new Internet service provider. Williams also indicated that the ...

It’s like a primitive Apple Siri, but rendered over dial-up. Uncovering forgotten capabilities like this is one of the main reasons Carpenter and I want to preserve information about Prodigy.

Once the bell rang, I’d pull out my Walkman for the bus ride home, where, later that night, I would dial into Prodigy for my sanctioned hour of phone-line interruption. In that early internet ...