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Public or not 1991 was a very, very, very different time. The idea that some dumb stuff I posted would still be around in 30+ years would have been crazy.

(Actually, I wonder if the Prodigy forums got archived...)

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Those were semi private no ? I would guess not. Although maybe there's an old server sitting in someone's garage with the info

I think this is the best we've got - but seems moribund. Relied on finding people's old C:\PRODIGY directories and finding what was cached

https://www.prodigyreloaded.com/

We're still working on it! It is worth noting that the STAGE.DAT an CACHE.DAT from C:\PRODIGY will never contain things like email messages or forum posts. They will contain things like the pages and program logic that comprise particular parts of the service, and at most parts of the various service database indices and records (e.g., bits of the Encyclopedia, Movie Reviews, that sort of thing).

There's a discord server for the project here: https://discord.gg/2GpsEC5JdP

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