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Title: Remembering eWorld, Apple's forgotten online service Post by: HCK on June 11, 2014, 09:00:18 pm Remembering eWorld, Apple's forgotten online service
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Just before the Internet’s meteoric rise in the public consciousness, large centralized dial-up services like America Online, Prodigy, and CompuServe dominated the online landscape. In this competitive (http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,303473,00.html) climate 20 years ago, Apple introduced eWorld (http://web.archive.org/web/20030218145922/http://www.vanvr.com/eworld/), a subscription-based information service available to Mac and Newton users. Despite its closure in 1996, eWorld remains notable for its city-based interface metaphor and as a symbol of Apple’s overreach in the era.</p><figure class="large ">(http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2014/05/eworld-main-screen-100277084-large.gif) <figcaption> <p>eWorld's main screen.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2202091/remembering-eworld-apples-forgotten-online-service.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Remembering eWorld, Apple's forgotten online service (http://www.macworld.com/article/2202091/remembering-eworld-apples-forgotten-online-service.html#tk.rss_all) |