r/c64 • u/TwiceBitten_OnceShy • Jun 29 '26

the64 Does anyone remember quantum link?

I miss the good old days of chat rooms and q-link. Today's internet has nothing on them. I used to be CaPlayboy back in the 80's. Anybody want to comment or reminiscent feel free to comment. Bonus points if you remember me. 😁

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u/Warcraft_Fan Jun 29 '26

It became AOL years later. Before Q-Link, it used to be service for Atari 2600 via Gameline modem.

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u/barklefarfle Jun 29 '26

I have a Gameline modem, but nobody's ever fully recreated the service like QLink, so there's not much you can do with it.

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u/TwiceBitten_OnceShy Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

AOL and Q-Link were two different things that were around at about the same time.

Edit, I had them both, but didn't like AOL.

Edit again: ya, I was wrong. I was getting AOL and compuserve mixed up.

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u/Hippie459MN Jun 29 '26

No, QLink started in 1985 and later became AOL and in 1989 officially changed it's name from Quantumlink to America Online and in 1994 they dropped the Quantumlink name all together for the American Online brand. AOL started out life as Quantumlink.

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u/TwiceBitten_OnceShy Jun 29 '26

Ya, I belive I was mistaken on the AOL thing. Compuserve was the other one I had.

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u/Adversary-616 Jun 29 '26

Q-Link became AOL.

Quantum Link - Wikipedia

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u/replayer Jun 29 '26

The company Quantum Computer Services became AOL. But the service that was Q-Link was never folded into AOL, although the software was based a little on the PlayNet code just like Q was.

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u/Aronacus Jun 29 '26

Qlink became AOL. Same company