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Example Sentences

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LOL, for example, was limited to the Canadian online bulletin board Viewline in the mid-1980s before the participants spread the expression to General Electric’s much larger GEnie system.

From Slate • Jul. 5, 2012

Led by CompuServe, MCI Mail, AOL, GEnie, Delphi, and Prodigy, these services have been embraced by the computer-owning public.

From Slate • Dec. 23, 2010

GEnie and Delphi have have gone out of business, too.

From Slate • Dec. 23, 2010

I moved on to the big commercial services: CompuServe, Prodigy, GEnie, Delphi and America Online, as well as half a dozen Internet systems.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hirmondo- is dead tech today, but Hirmondo- might be considered a spiritual ancestor of the modern telephone-accessed computer data services, such as CompuServe, GEnie or Prodigy.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce