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| I’d like to thank Leslie Miller for her great article about Q-Link which appeared in the February 10, 2000 issue of USA Today. It was a pleasure to be interviewed for the article. :-)
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| In other areas of the system, files vanished from the software library even though to all appearances they were still there. In preparation for the announced shutdown, AOL quit allowing new Q-Link memberships in August of 1994, but that only kept out honest people; hackers created new bogus accounts seemingly at will right up until the end. Hackers were the bane of the QGuide’s existence, but not all staff took their presence that seriously, as you can see from this joking OLM (remember On Line Messages) to me from an inhouser...
| The Commodore 64’s big brother, the C128. |
| Q-Link’s influence on AOL is still obvious today. Many of AOL’s current features such as People Connection and RabbitJack’s Casino were first begun on Q-Link. AOL calls their various areas “channels”, but the fact is they are simply Q-Link’s departments hiding under a new name. Not all features were improved by the transfer to AOL. For example, on Q-Link, the Casino offered bingo, slot machines, and different types of poker.
| On AOL, the Casino offers bingo and... well, bingo. Other features never were transferred to AOL. Examples include Puzzler (an online “Wheel of Fortune” clone) and Club Caribe.
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