Thank you. I was 23 years old at the time I wrote it. I'm 43
   years old now. I wasn't thinking overall historically, but
   rather I was sad that my favorite online service was dead, and
   it had been dead for a year already by then.

   It was just a message in a Usenet forum; I honestly wouldn't
   have BELIEVED that I could retrieve it 20 years later.

   Then again, I expected the Internet to have gotten more advanced
   than it has. We've had advancements in quantity, but we've taken
   some steps backwards in interactivity.. unless one is doing
   online gaming. They have real-time interaction. Facebook's
   public areas are more like, "close-to" real time.. but still not
   real time.

   The graphics of Q-Link *was* pretty intense for the time, even
   for 1995. I mean, we had Castle Wolfenstein 3D for the PC, but
   really, it was the combination of graphics and music and games
   altogether in one dialup service that required only a 300 bps
   modem that blew my mind... AND to a computer (the Commadore 64)
   that hooked up to your TV set!

   I mean by 1995, nobody's computer hooked up to a TV set.

   But the colors for online in 1995 were really crappy. Everything
   looked like words on paper compared to Q-Link... which was
   colorful, bright, cheerful.

   [actually the colors on the Internet NOW are generally rather
   drab. Just look at Facebook. Blue title and white background
   with gray/black letters. _BORING_. smile emoticon

   Q-Link, the intensely colorful, musical service, was already
   long dead by then too. I never had it; I just was envious of it.
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