im/chat program?
I'm not a mac person at all. was the program they used in the movie to im or chat a real program?
shareI've been using Apple Macs for years and I've never seen that program used before.
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It's a pre im/chat program that looks very much like eWorld developed by Apple in 94. incredibly, it was built from a previous model made by Quantum(now known as America Online or AOL) for Apple! I think it was known as QuantumLink, then AppleLink and finally eWorld. Hence you can see an AOL like logo used for sending data...but I don't remember it filling the whole screen, I guess that was just adapted for the cinema goers.
what didn't make sense was if Nicolai Tashlinkov was supposedly dead for the past 15 years or so, the movie is set in 1995, that means he died in 1980. How did Nicolai gave contracts to Robert in the 80's as personal computer were not connected the Internet until early 90's?
Bypassing your interesting question, what kind of Mac was Banderas using? It looks like powerbook but what model i can't figure out.
share Not that this triva is important, but I just had to clear it up a bit. Quantum Link started out as upstart to Compuserve for the Commodore 64 and Vic (with a 64k upgrade kit and new roms installed) computers (I had it for the commodore 64 back in '84-'85) because Compuserve refused to release software for them at first.
America Online was an IBM PC BBS up in Seattle that started growing big time in the early 80's. I forget the orginal name of AOL but it was something like "Seattle Sky BBS" or something close to that. They changed their name to AOL sometime arround '87 or '88 as they began to sweep over the west coast. They bought the then failing Quantum Link and took it's GUI terminal program (and client base) that they had devloped for the PC market and started a campaign against Prodigy and Compuserve until they ended up buying both of them.
I know there was a version of Quantum Link for the Apple II series and I had an Apple (sans 300bps modem), but I never tried it. I built my first PC in 86 and had tried all the major online services by '88 including delphi (that was the first real public access to the internet, cause the others were stand alone services) and none were ever as good as Quantum Link. I miss navigating my Quantum Link "home page" with my skil stik joystick.
People were using computers with modems to connect to BBS and other text services for YEARS before the internet became common. In the mid 80s I was surfing several BBS and text message boards. Prodigy used to be largely text-based, as was Compuserve, for the longest time.
So the whole thing you see them using is extremely plausible. But who said they always used computers? Perhaps that was a newer innovation and in the 80s they used some other system. There was life prior to computers, after all!
If they were able to code chess games into the New York Times, then I am sure Robert Rath would be able to secretly get contracts without use of the internet.
"I say what I mean, and I do what I say. "
Prodigy and such have been around long before the known "internet". Most of these kids don't remember or know about surfing on BBS. They think that GUIs such as AOL and Netscape in the early '90s were the begining of it all.
...There is no spoon! (The Matrix)
In a nutshell.........1995.........texting was called.....BoardRoom posting!
There's wasn't IM or anything of sorts at the time.
Kids.........sheesh!!