AOL's magazines? What magazines? Yes, AOL used to produce monthly magazines for its members. It all started with AOL's erstwhile service for the Commodore 64, Q-Link, which had its own monthly "Update" magazine. (Actually, it started even before that, when CoVideo Co., AOL/Quantum's predecessor co., had a service for the Atari called GameLine, but you'll have to get my book to read all about that). ;) The magazines have come and gone, but I saved all the ones to ever cross my path. Here's a sampling.
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Q-Link Update
An early Q-Link Update magazine. This one is from May of 1988. Later magazines featured more colorful, graphics-oriented designs, not shots of people like the one featured here. I'll be posting more Q-Link Updates as I get them scanned.
PC-Link Update
The October, 1989 cover of the PC-Link update.------------
[photo coming soon]
This is the first update magazine produced for America Online, the newly named company and service. It came out in 1989 (I didn't see an exact date on it), and was followed by others. Around this time, AOL decided to "commingle" its separate services for the PC (PC-Link), Apple II, and Macintosh (AppleLink), and create its one single flagship product, AOL. This magazine featured Guy Kawasaki on its cover -- he is a "guru" of Macintosh computing, author, and entrepreneur. He once came to AOL to give us a "pep talk."
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