Prodigy

Sears and IBM launch a national online service called Prodigy on September 20, 1988. Prodigy is an online videotext service costing $9.95 per month. Prodigy becomes one of the three leading online services before it loses ground to the World Wide Web in the mid-1990s. The company is bought out by its management in 1996 and becomes an Internet service provider.
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