![]() ![]() If you remember the board(s) and/or club(s) you posted on, then maybe you can track someone down who saved something. Your faint, but only hope are the board refugees. 1) WHM > Server Configuration > Basic cPanel & WHM Setup, enter your ICQ UIN (It should be your ICQ identity NUMBER and. It's actually pretty depressing that such a large piece of internet history is just GONE like that, but that's kinda a derail. They have no hope of ever seeing the light of day again for anything other than a court order, because they and whatever other Prodigy assets still exist have passed hands so many times that I couldn't even tell you for certain who has them (probably SBC/AT&T). but they're in some nameless vault somewhere on backup media in a markup language nobody knows anymore. Unless someone tossed them, complete archives of the Prodigy boards DO exist. The refugees scattered to boards all over the web, many of them ended up as Delphi Forums. they even pretended to be shocked when nobody used them and the service bombed. They decided it was easier to just be a basic ISP called Prodigy Internet, and start their communities over from scratch as web-based boards closed to the general web. Prodigy never bothered convering the service to any remotely modern format - they shut down the service you remember in late 1999 (claiming Y2K as the culprit). Ex-Prodigy employee here: wish I had better news, but you're probably out of luck on the old posts thing. ![]()
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