delphi ( online service )
north andover, ma (february 1, 2013) - - delphi forums is kicking off a month - long celebration to mark 30 years of hosting online conversations. the site traces its origins to the delphi online service, which debuted in 1983 .
the service that became delphi was launched in 1981 as an online encyclopedia. it was soon expanded to include forums and chat and the delphi name was first used february 15, 1983. this home for groups organized around shared interests lives on today as delphi forums, a vibrant network of online communities .
[ 22 ] gerber, carole houze. “online yesterday today and tomorrow. ” online today. compuserve information service newsletter, jul 1989: 12 - 19. ↩
news corp. , one of the world' s leading media concerns, bought delphi last fall with the idea of designing customized online services for customers. delphi announced last month it had developed a customized service for the usa gymnastics .
delphi forums' success today is rooted in its long history of online milestones. delphi hosted some of the first online communities - - the earliest form of social media. delphi was the first service to provide national consumer access to the internet in 1992. a few years later, delphi became one of the first services to provide a home to communities on the world wide web. delphi has been going strong ever since, and in 2003, acquired pioneering chat site talk city (eventually incorporating those communities into delphi forums) .
genie, delphi, aol and other commercial networks once ruled the online roost. where are they now, and what can their ghosts teach today' s online communities ?
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as with the other major online systems, there were many other services available online besides the maug forums, including news services, online shopping, games, and much more. [ 23 ]
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news corp. and pulitzer publishing co. announced thursday they have formed a partnership to expand pulitzer' s postlink online service for st. louis residents .
these old - school online services may be shadows of their former selves, but they have a lot to teach today' s online communities .
necessarily be removed entirely from delphi forums - this is to reserve your identity so that no one else can create a new account with your membername or email address, and also allows you the privilege of reactivating your account at a later date if you wish to use delphi forums again. the termination of your delphi forums membership will not automatically terminate any affiliated memberships or registrations you have formed through delphi forums. if, after having joined a delphi partner' s service, you wish to be removed, you should contact that service directly to have your membership terminated .
today, delphi forums is home to groups discussing topics ranging from knitting to politics to motorcycles. all of the forums are created and managed by delphi forums members. unlike other forum hosting hubs, delphi forums members can use their accounts to visit any public forum in the network. most delphi forums members participate in multiple communities .
unless you were lucky enough to live close to an online service point of presence you had to use a dial - up modem to call up an x. 25 packet switched wide area network (wan). this connection service alone could cost anywhere from an affordable $ 1 an hour to a wallet busting $ 30 an hour, which you could then use to connect with an online service. the online service would also typically charge you a monthly fee plus an additional fee of $ 1 to $ 6 an hour. and you thought your isp was expensive !
wow, i didn' t realize delphi had continued its existence. i was a delphi user, back in the 80' s. how far they have fallen .
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delphi was a small but persistent contender for online revenue well into the' 90s, at which point the company tried several tactics to remain competitive in the face of the growing popularity of the internet. in 1992, delphi became one of the first national online services to offer consumer access to many elements of the internet, such as telnet, usenet and gopher. around this time, delphi membership peaked at 125, 000 .
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note: the end dates of the following entries sometimes refer to the end of their service for the apple ii or their classic text access, not necessarily the final end of the service .
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in late 1993, aol and delphi become the first online services to offer the internet. the fcc orders both to drop the feature until the fcc' s labs approve it .
you can elect to terminate your membership with delphi forums at any time. simply go to your
because of its long history, delphi forums members can turn to some of the world' s most experienced online community experts for help and advice. one of those experts is walt howe, who has been with delphi since 1986 .
many online community services have come and gone in the past 30 years. i have been on most of them, and i am delighted to say that my favorite community, delphi, has outlasted them all ,
howe said .
compuserve was founded in 1969 as a way for golden united life insurance' s computers to earn their keep via time - sharing to other businesses. the service expanded to the consumer market in 1979 (formally known as the compuserve information service, or cis) and was acquired in 1980 by tax firm h & r block, which would also gobble up rival online service the source in 1989 .
afaik, it was not an
internet
service provider, but a proprietary, closed online service just like the others of that day: compuserve, aol, prodigy, etc. the most access to the internet offered by genie was email. no web or other ip - level access .
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in 1998, the bob online service makes its debut—late, of course. the fcc regulates subscription prices for all of the online companies. nobody likes bob. it' s slow and has a tendency to crash, resolving to a blank blue screen. microsoft and the fcc promise fixes. the fixes are late, and the online services continue to bleed subscribers and losses .
delphi screenshot, nov 1996 – photo credit: adapted from photo in juiced. gs, fall 1996
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the service languished in 1993 after being bought by rupert murdoch' s news corporation, which in turn sold delphi in 1996 to a group that included bill louden, former general electric employee and founder of genie. louden and company made delphi accessible from the internet, with web pages for each member and forum .
an online delphi - based process to select criteria for defining health care quality was rated as acceptable by three groups of participants, indicating it could be used to engage stakeholders in developing performance measures .
[ 27 ] weishaar, tom. “all about genie: general electric’s online information service. ” call - a. p. p. l. e. sep 1988: 46 - 50. ↩
when delphi friends pass away, the community comes here to remember, cry, smile and honor them .
a: the annuities were purchased by general motors before 2000. when delphi was spun off from general motors, the annuities were transferred to the delphi retirement program for salaried employees, effective may 1, 2000 .
the new service had a slow start, due to the expense of getting the service started and a small number of initial subscribers. it was accessible through telenet or tymnet nodes; that is, through computers in a locality that acted as gateways to many other online computer services across the country. often there was an additional fee for using the telenet or tymnet node, in addition to the charges for the specific service being accessed .
( delphi forums, north andover, ma, www. delphiforums. com) a consumer - oriented website that offers self - managed forums on any subject. similar to usenet in that messages are posted for subsequent reading at any time, delphi forums require all forums to be moderated by the person who originated them or a designated administrator. in the late 1980s, delphi was an online service, which in 1992, was the first to offer full internet access, not just email. in 1998, it switched to the forums model .
over the next decade, delphi enjoyed slow growth, but was well behind that of compuserve, prodigy, america online and genie. by 1993 it had around 100, 000 subscribers, but did not have the finances to expand its offerings to compete with the larger services. delphi’s directors began to look at outside funding, and one of the companies they approached was rupert murdoch’s news corporation. murdoch’s company had significant offerings in media that none of the other online services had available to them, including newspapers, book publishers, and television. news corporation did not have an online service, and the other four services were already owned by larger companies. the deal made between delphi and murdoch became more than just funding, and became an outright purchase of delphi, every share of stock, for a bargain price of about $ 3 million. [ 35 ]
compuserve, prodigy et al. : what web 2. 0 can learn from online 1. 0
compuserve, prodigy et al. : what web 2. 0 can learn from online 1. 0
this was the main online service i used for 10 years. dumped it when aol bought them. first connected with a manual 300 baud modem i built from spare parts. still have the modem. fun days .
delphi forums has survived and flourished by re - inventing itself, first by moving its communities from a low - speed dial - up service to the web in the 1990' s, and most recently when former ceo dan bruns acquired delphi forums in 2011 and embarked on a series of technology upgrades aimed at increasing member engagement and community growth .
in a statement, delphi said:' in an effort to address an extremely competitive environment, delphi has entered discussions with unions and employees at its liverpool site to determine the future of the company' s liverpool manufacturing plant .
in 1980, compuserve merged with h & r block, and changed their personal computer service name from micronet to compuserve information service. they continued to expand their services and capabilities, and were widely available across the country. [ 22 ]
they coulda been contenders once upon a time, delphi was fighting it out with aol. then along came rupert .
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delphi was the first national commercial online service to offer internet access to its subscribers. it opened up an email connection in july 1992 and full internet service in november 1992. all pretenses of limitations on commercial use disappeared in may 1995 when the national science foundation ended its sponsorship of the internet backbone, and all traffic relied on commercial networks. aol, prodigy, and compuserve came online. since commercial usage was so widespread by this time and educational institutions had been paying their own way for some time, the loss of nsf funding had no appreciable effect on costs .
delphi forums' site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under its control. delphi forums' servers have strict security in place to prevent an intruder from retrieving personal information about its users .
to try to keep itself going, delphi and another internet service called “well engaged” (which originated years earlier as “the well”) combined forces in january 2000 to create a company called prospero technologies. prospero was designated to manage message boards and chat services. along with this, delphi was reducing its technical staff, which added to the dysfunction of the a2 forum. those remaining staff were experiencing more and more problems keeping the text and web sides synchronized with each other. in august, delphi announced that as of november 1, 2000 they would no longer be billing users for the service. for those who were using delphi’s “legacy services” (text - based access), they would keep it running but would do no technical support. this made direct access of delphi by an apple ii very tenuous, as it could disappear at any time .
unlike some of its competitors, which were started as side projects at larger organizations, delphi was founded in 1981 with the goal of providing online access to information. it was launched by author wes kussmaul as kussmaul encyclopedia, the first online encyclopedia. by 1982, it featured message boards, e - mail and chat rooms as well .
[ 35 ] garfinkel, simpson, “the delphi deal”, wired 2. 01 electrosphere, 1994, < urltoken > ↩
[ 37 ] jones, max, “delphi”, juiced. gs, fall 1996, pp. 4 - 5. ↩
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those were the kinds of numbers news corp. management and industry analysts thought they could bank on. but the figures hid the fact that delphi was losing its competitive edge. by 1995, each of the new big three was offering internet access, and so were dozens of other local isps. it didn' t help that delphi had never redesigned its all - text service into the simple point - and - click model aol was using to push ahead of the pack. while others were rapidly revamping their offerings, delphi was busy moving from cambridge to new york city. baratz and other news corp. heavies were also preoccupied with a plan to build i - guide, a mega - online service with mci that never fully materialized .
car parts manufacturer delphi plans to close a uk plant with the loss of more than 180 jobs, according to union claims .
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it was a much better bbs service than compuserve, much faster as i recall and hosted on dec 10' s i believe .
in 1996, traffic and revenue was down, and news corporation sold delphi to a group of investors that included bill loudin, who had started genie back in 1985. they began to work on migrating the content and function of delphi to the web. they changed the service to free access, supported by web - based advertising (at the height of the dot - com bubble) .
like other online systems, genie offered many different services to its subscribers, including news, an online encyclopedia, online shopping, games, financial information, and areas of interest to users of various brands of computers. genie became known for its multiplayer games, popular because of their variety as well as the comparatively lower cost to participate in them .
whatever their individual fates, these services live on not just in memory, but in their impact on the development of subsequent online communities. even today' s social networks could learn a lesson or two from the old online services .
instead of becoming the online industry' s leader, delphi would quickly become one of its early casualties. murdoch had hoped that his new company would be the vehicle to carry his vast print and broadcast holdings onto the internet. delphi was supposed to be the simpsons' new home and beverly hills 90210' s online address. to take it to that next level, murdoch hired away ibm' s director of high - performance computing and communications, alan baratz, in 1994. bruns and williams stayed on but took a back seat. under baratz, delphi peaked with 500, 000 paid subscribers and about 600 employees .
during the first decade of the 21st century there was a lot of shuttling back and forth of what was left of delphi. prospero sold the delphi forums in 2001 to rob brazell, and sold the urltoken domain name to the delphi corporation, manufacturer of automotive parts. brazell had high goals and plans for the forums, but within a year prospero had reacquired delphi forums from him. by 2008, mzinga, inc. , bought out prospero. finally in september 2011, dan bruns (who was in the group of investors who had purchased delphi back from news corporation back in 1996) bought delphi forums back from mazinga. these forums still exist as of 2012, with free access for posting in forums, and two paid levels of premium access that provide a type of web hosting .
the archives for the zone gazette, a member - produced newsletter that provided news and information about delphi forums from 2001 - 2008 .
' through our joint venture with delphi, we are able to provide postlink members with access to vast resources of delphi with the internet, and local, customized services, too,' said nicholas g. penniman, senior vice president of newspaper operations for pulitzer .
q: i haven' t yet retired. how do i apply when i' m ready to start getting my delphi benefit ?
compuserve was ultimately purchased by aol, which
never supported a text system and entered the market with a much friendlier windows - based point - and - click service ,
says schoenbach, whose company, fun online, continues to operate various commercial forums .
engaging diverse groups of stakeholders through online collaborative platforms is a promising and scalable approach to prioritizing patient - centered research topics .
voila, you just spent an hour online writing 5 or 6 long emails, and didn' t pay for it .
the joint venture is expected to start to supply services from news corp.' s delphi internet services corp. in the second quarter .
posts on delphi were organized into a threaded message base. posts could be read in numerical order, or in the threaded order by using a “follow” command that grouped related messages. there were fifteen main topics in the apple ii forum. the apple ii database was a library of files available for download, and also offered quick access outside of delphi to internet files via ftp (file transfer protocol). as early as 1992 it was possible for email from delphi to be sent or received outside of the system to the internet at large, well before it was possible on the other national online services. additionally, delphi made it easy to access usenet newsgroups. [ 36 ]
less than six months later, its subscriptions tripled. despite delphi' s small staff of 30 and its humble quarters above barsamain' s grocery near harvard square, in cambridge, mass. , many predicted that it would soon make roadkill of the online big three .
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they coulda been contenders once upon a time, delphi was fighting it out with aol. then along came rupert. - november 1, 1999
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delphi had their
internet portal .
my first taste of the
wider world ,
in text of course, in' 94 .
around the mid -' 90s, the internet, previously available mostly to universities and government organizations, expanded onto citizens' desktops, seriously threatening the online services' hegemony. some online services became web gateways, while others morphed into full - fledged internet service providers (isps). one way or another, most tried - - and failed - - to compete with the more comprehensive and affordable internet .
we can' t have the online industry pushing out beta software on unsuspecting customers willy - nilly. such software could compromise the users' computers, interfere with other users' computers, or crash the whole online world ,
the fcc chairman says .
when news corp. bought delphi internet services, they asked us to build a prototype of what the service might look like. this was long before the web and the state of the art was 1200 bps downloads over phone lines. the interface was built to organize the wealth of what would be on the service while performing as fast as possible. it looks hopelessly simple by today’s standards but it was the state of the art at the time .
in its post - apple ii era in the mid - to - late 1990s, aol became a significant player in the introduction of the casual computer user to online activities. not only did the service offer a wide variety of services within its “borders”, america online also became a popular portal to the world wide web in general – so much so that in the eyes of some people, aol was the internet .
no, they were an online service from the' 80s. evenutally they connected to the internet, but in a kind of klugy, haphazard way. before that, all the services, the forums, information resources, online games, and email resided on their network alone. compuserve worked this way at first as well, and prodigy too iirc. all these serviced predated generally available public access to the internet .
the easiest way to apply for your pbgc benefit is through our secure online service, mypba. you should fill out your application no sooner than four months before you want to start benefits. to start receiving your annuity payment from prudential, call 1 - 800 - 621 - 1089 .
teens can earn service hours and help to improve the library. join us for snacks and fun as we work on teen - centered projects and programs .
well, not exactly. nowadays, if you mention delphi - - especially to anyone under 30 - - most people think you' re talking greek. those who know better often ask ,
oh yeah, whatever happened to them ?
this is what happened: by the end of summer 1999, delphi still had only 30 employees and was headquartered in the same space above barsamain' s. the company has been reinvented as delphi forums and is now a web - based hub for online communities and discussion groups. the new delphi is once again a player in a crowded field. why didn' t it become the dominant force many thought it would? no surprises there. delphi' s tale of woe has a familiar plot line to it: a small company was seduced by a corporate big brother and, ultimately, sidetracked by someone else' s business plan .
delphi internet services corp. , cambridge, mass. , is reviewing its advertising account in preparation for a relaunch later this year. among the agencies news corp. - owned delphi is talking to are merkley newman harty, chiat / day and altschiller reitzfeld, all new york, said susan d. goodman, delphi' s new exec vp - worldwide marketing. budget for the launch will be
considerably higher
than the $ 6 million billed in 1994, ms. goodman said. the account has been inactive for several months after delphi ended a relationship with woolward & partners, san francisco .
q: i just heard that pbgc made almost 600 million dollars when delphi purchased pbgc’s ownership interest in the company. how will this affect my benefit ?
soon after the purchase by america online, the predicted loss of text - based access came true, when the new owners announced in december 1998 that access to compuserve would require a “front - end” program to manage access (available only for the macintosh and for windows), rather than allow use of any generic text - based telecommuncations program. this move accelerated the exodus of apple ii users from that service to elsewhere (often going to delphi) .
( fortune small business) – the online world in the early 1990s looked a lot like detroit in the 1950s. america online, compuserve, and prodigy were the infant industry' s version of the big three. each offered solid, well - built, mass - market services that allowed users access only to news and features the companies or their partners produced. the internet was still largely the domain of of academics, and
www
looked more like a typo than the future. then in 1992, delphi internet services rolled onto the scene. it was the first commercial service to offer real - time chats, online auctions, and full access to the internet - - all the stuff that has become so popular today .
during 1999, delphi programmers continued working on building up the service’s web access, mirroring content posted on the text side so it was also available to anyone visiting with a standard web browser, and vice versa. synchronization between the two was still a problem at times, and became very apparent when daylight savings time began in april of that year. a bug in their software resulted in a large number of messages being duplicated in the a2 forum (and in many of delphi’s other forums). by late in the year the company was focusing almost entirely on web access, and paying less and less attention to the text part of the service. in fact, it was late in the year that delphi discontinued its dial - up access, and made text access available only via telnet. the lamp! took time in november 1999 to explain to those who had previously only used dial - up about the process needed to connect to delphi via telnet .
this study developed practical considerations for including large, diverse, and geographically dispersed groups of patients in clinical practice guideline development through online engagement methods .
the delphi method solicits the opinions of experts through a series of carefully designed questionnaires interspersed with information and opinion feedback in order to establish a convergence of opinion .
michigan - based delphi, one of the world' s largest car parts manufacturers, said it is keeping an open mind about the plant' s future .
the fcc gives compuserve, aol, mci mail, and prodigy until july 1997 to make their transition to microsoft bob. (prodigy' s owners, ibm and sears, have folded their service because the delays have depressed subscriptions. genie and delphi have have gone out of business, too. aol and mci announce their merger into aol mail, but the fcc prevents the union, saying that it would concentrate too much power in one online company' s hands. )
the best way to keep in touch with pbgc is through our online service, mypba. or you can send us an email at mypension @ urltoken. also, you can call us monday through friday, 8 a. m. - 7 p. m. et at 1 - 800 - 400 - 7242 .
the regulators also love bob because it has created more
channels
for police, fire, libraries, city councils, legislatures, courts, and public service messages than the other proposed systems. bob testers complain that these channels leave little space for the data, information, and communications they expect to find on an online system. one compares bob to a government designed version of the yellow pages, only duller. another pines for the wild west days of the unregulated online world when you didn' t have to pay virtual
parking
to your local municipality before you went shopping inside the online mall .
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i was online in 1983. it was cumpuserve and it really sucked. at 300 baud it was text - only and there was little there .
the advantage of using delphi was that it could be accessed via telnet from any internet connection, and did not have to depend on delphi - specific local dial - up phone numbers. the cost for telnet access to delphi could be as low as $ 3 per month, if paid a year in advance. furthermore, users had a choice of text - based or web - based access. the message base that was displayed was drawn from the same database, and so should be identical whether read through telnet as text, or using a web browser. at that time delphi management stated that they were committed to maintaining text - based access for their users .
cookies are used on delphi forums to verify your login information, and to optionally store your password in your browser so that you do not need to type it in each time you visit. any time that you point your browser to a' members - only' area, delphi forums checks your browser' s cookie file to see if you have already logged in, and if you have, you' re taken right to the page that you have requested. if not, you' ll be directed to the delphi forums login screen, where you can quickly and easily login to your account, or signup for delphi forums if you are not yet a member .
[ 36 ] kellers, tim and hartley, charles, “checking out delphi and genie”, ii alive, jan / feb 1995, pp. 6 - 9. ↩
citing software development problems, the online services ask that the deadline for framework specs get pushed back from july 1995 to july 1996. the fcc approves .
internal revenue service the irs provides help for tax questions in several ways, many of them free. these are listed in irs publication 575 and on the irs website at urltoken .
throughout the month of february, delphi forums is marking the anniversary with special events and discussions, including a 24 - hour chat - a - thon february 15th and 16th .
among the third - party advertising companies that delphi forums uses are google. for more information on their privacy policies, please consult the google ad and content network privacy policy .
this sample authenticates the user with the microsoft dynamics 365 web services by using the crmserviceclient and methods. after obtaining a reference to the organization web service, the sample performs basic create, update, retrieve, and delete operations on an account entity. the sample also handles common exceptions. no helper code is used to establish a connection to the organization web service .
a new, online method to engage more patients and caregivers in developing clinical guidelines will be created and then tested, using duchenne muscular dystrophy as an example .
considering the rocky relationship between quantum and apple, it is not surprising that by 1989 a divorce was in the works. however, like any divorce, it turned out to messy and expensive. the original contract apple had with quantum allowed that company exclusive use of the apple logo in association with an online product. this amazingly bad decision on the part of apple now could hamper the ability of the company to create its own service with its own logo! to resolve the situation, in june 1989 apple paid $ 2. 5 million to quantum to recover the rights to use the apple logo in the context of an online service. by october of that year, quantum gave applelink personal edition a new name, america online (or “aol” for short), still at that time exclusive to the apple ii and macintosh. it continued to be still slightly less expensive than the other major online services, and because of the alpe software still the easiest to use for the beginner. [ 40 ]
utter’s frustrations with genie came to a head, and on january 1, 1997 he regretfully announced in a post there that he was abandoning the a2 roundtable for the new forums that had been created on delphi. he urged other apple ii users to join him there, as he strongly felt that it was delphi that held the future for apple ii online access and community. some others who chose to stay on genie criticized this move, as they felt that it would certainly kill off genie if everyone left .
by august 1997 there were quite a few new delphi members in the a2 forum, and activity was increasing. the primary limitation was the sparse numbers of files in the a2 library on delphi. however, for months before starting on delphi, syndicomm had been systematically downloading files for archival purposes from the a2 roundtable on genie, and efforts were being made to upload those they could to the delphi library. it was a large collection of as many as 14, 000 files, and the process of uploading these files was slowed by the need to create descriptions and keywords for each file, and also to make sure that the original uploader had not specified that the file could only be uploaded to genie .
- by providing your email address, you can receive important messages via your existing email account. message board notifications, personalized my forums newsletters, and messages sent to you by other delphi forums members rely on the email address you provide when you register. delphi forums does not share your email address with other members, forum hosts, or third parties .
' what pulitzer publishing is doing with postlink represent a strategic direction for all publishers,' said jaan torv, delphi' s senior executive vice president of programming and development.' delphi recognizes this market need and is responding aggressively with products and services so that publishers can have their own' look and feel' for a local or specialized market.'
by the early part of the first decade of the new century, online services like america online discontinued usenet newsgroup access, as web - based chat rooms and message boards had become increasingly popular. this likely has not had much of an effect on ending the eternal september, since anyone anywhere on the internet can still get to newsgroups if they are sufficiently interested. some internet service providers are likewise dropping direct access to newsgroups, making it necessary to pay for access. however, other choices are available .
the fcc immediately determines that the lack of interoperability among the online systems harms consumers and orders that each company submit a technical framework by january 1994 under which all online companies will unify to one shared technology in the near future. the precedent for this are the technical standards that the fcc has been setting for decades for am and fm, and for television. the online services threaten legal action again, and again congress passes new legislation authorizing the fcc to do as it wishes. the online companies hustle to submit a technical framework. microsoft wants in on the game, so it persuades the fcc to extend the framework deadline to july 1995 .
a lack of standards and norms for defining and publicly registering analysis plans in advance threatens the credibility of using consensus - oriented delphi processes to inform health research practice, and policy .
q 1: i withdrew my contributions and originally began receiving benefits directly from the plan (delphi) when i retired. how do i determine the taxable amount of my payments ?
[ note: for a different view on the history of the various pre - web online services, please see the excellent overview article by ken gagne and matt lake, “ compuserve, prodigy et al. : what web 2. 0 can learn from online 1. 0 “, published july 15, 2009 at computerworld ]
online services are one of the hottest industries in the united states, enabling personal computer users to read the news, shop for merchandise and chat with each other .
sure there were isps but getting online meant making a per - minute phone call to them over a modem (this was the days of 56k dialup accounts) .
i remember how cool i thought it was gophering via delphi' s internet gateway on my 2400 bps modem. ok, enough reminiscing for the night, time to open another beer .
starting june 1, 2013, about 6, 000 delphi salaried retirees will see a change in how they receive their retirement benefit. they will continue to receive the same benefit amount .
that same year at kansasfest, gary utter (who had been a chief sysop in the a2 roundtable on genie) gave hints that changes were in the wind. in his keynote address, he had said it was necessary for the apple ii online community to spread outside of genie, due to its uncertain future. a formal announcement was made in november of that year that syndicomm had created forums on delphi for a2 and a2pro, with similar topics as were found in the genie counterparts. as on genie, delphi had online conference areas where they planned to have open nightly to help apple ii users, and special conference events were planned. the new a2 forums went live on november 18, 1996 .
in the early 1980s, an experiment in shopping and on - demand news delivery using television set - top boxes led three corporations to launch a colorful new online service. it was called trintex, and unlike older services such as compuserve and the source, it wasn' t tied to a dull ascii interface. when it launched in four markets in 1984, this joint venture between ibm, sears and cbs looked like a consumer product. within four years, cbs had dropped out of the venture, and the service had a new name - - prodigy .
by the late 1980s, maug was beginning to feel the pinch of apple ii users who had left for the less costly competing service, genie. as mentioned in the previous section, compuserve bought out the source in 1989, and shortly afterwards closed it down. by the early 1990s, compuserve was itself struggling to accommodate to the advances being made in the online world, particularly the burgeoning phenomenon of the internet. competition with other online services made it necessary to make adjustments in the cost of the service, and the cost was dropped from $ 10 per hour to $ 1. 95 per hour. a portal to allow access to the internet was added. by 1997, pricing was changed to offer a flat monthly fee of $ 24. 95, to compete with rates offered by america online. the company also began to convert its forums from its proprietary format to one compatible with html .
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[ 34 ] the name likely was borrowed from the ancient oracle of delphi in greece, a place where prophecies and wisdom was passed down to worshippers of the greek god, apollo. ↩
q 2: i did not withdraw my contributions and originally began receiving benefits directly from the plan (delphi) when i retired. how do i determine the taxable amount of my payments ?
quantum computer services went through some changes as the business grew. in 1991, steve case became ceo of the company, and the america online service was expanded from its apple ii and mac base to add an ms - dos client. by 1993 they added a client for windows 3. 1. as the macintosh and windows clientele increased, the company decided on november 1, 1994 that it was time to discontinue its legacy services (q - link and pc - link). unfortunately, the company also decided to cancel the apple ii and iigs editions of its aol software. (for this reason, i give the end date of america online as 1994, referring specifically to direct use of the service by apple ii computers. )
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yet it must have also seemed tragic the day bruns walked back into delphi' s cambridge offices. though most of its operations had moved to new york city and another facility in lowell, mass. , news corp. had housed delphi' s computer hardware systems in its original headquarters .
there were floors of empty office space filled with rows of computer equipment, and dozens of empty cubicles housing just two news corp. employees ,
says bruns. with the help of some former delphi employees, bruns tore down the cubicles and democratically rearranged the desks into a circle .
since there were far too many local systems to discuss in even a passing manner here, the material presented here will examine the various nationally available systems and their history as it applies to the apple ii. however, before a discussion of commercial services can even start, it is necessary to look at the origins of the biggest “online service” of them all, the internet. understanding the creation of the internet helps to understand much of what was done with the commercial online services, and what is done today with the internet and the world wide web .
this article describes a conceptual framework and protocol that combines evidence review with expert opinion, using a modified delphi expert panel process, to elicit clinically meaningful objectives for clinical decision support directly from specialists .
while i have seen some criticisms of the delphi classics series (usually in terms of
completeness
) i love them and think the small purchase price is well worth the money ...
like the source, delphi featured a number of sigs (special interest groups) for all computer platforms and for many other topics. this included an apple ii sig that began in 1985. erik kloeppel was head sysop for that sig for a number of years. by january 1990, mike edwards was running the apple ii section on delphi, and erik kloeppel and jeffery mintz were assistant sysops .
a: after pbgc took responsibility for your delphi pension benefit in 2009, we learned that your benefit had been funded by two separate sources. most of your benefit was funded by delphi. however, a small portion was funded by your employee contributions. your pension plan used your contributions to purchase an annuity for you from an insurance company. this small annuity will now be paid by prudential .
the fcc ignores the standalone internet because nobody but academics, scientists, and some government bodies go there. so do the online services, which don' t offer internet access .
this transition coincided with the elimination of membership fees, with the expectation that web - based advertising would generate sufficient revenue to replace it. as with many dot - com era initiatives, reality fell short of expectations, and delphi was soon for sale once again. its management team merged with a company called wellengaged to form prospero technologies, which in 2001 sold delphi to a group that discontinued web access. prospero then repurchased delphi just a year later and replaced the text - based access with a new web interface that exists to this day, despite a buyout of prospero in 2008 by mzinga .
in 1978, william von meister had a vision for a home information “utility” that would connect computers (including the new microcomputers) into a network that made it easy to access news sources, do shopping from the home, and more. he started an online data service for consumers the following year, called the source. he announced his new service in july, 1979, at the plaza hotel in new york city. science fiction writer isaac asimov, who was sharing the stage at the time of this announcement, stated that this event heralded the beginning of the information age. [ 15 ]
your privacy is of the utmost importance to delphi forums. because we ask for some basic personal information during registration, we want you to be fully informed of how this information is gathered and used .
the late 1990s was a difficult time both for apple ii users and for text - based online services. the oldest of those services had been started as a way to make money on their time - sharing computers when they were not busy. being successful was a double - edge sword: if the after - hours use as an online service was successful, it put extra load on the mainframe computers. the other cut was that as the world wide web continued to gain ascendency, it was lessening demand for those text - based services. the increasing availability of internet access and web browser improvements were drawing customers away from a boring text - only interface to the colorful point - and - click world being offered by netscape and internet explorer. the lure of riches promised by investors in this era of the dot - com bubble caused each online service to try to find a way to transform itself into a web presence. in this environment, those who used a computer that didn’t care about html or web pages with pictures (8 - bit pioneers like the apple ii) were finding it more difficult to continue to have a nationally available home base for their online activities. and as text access for compuserve and genie began to fall apart in the last half of the decade, the next safe harbor that appeared on the horizon was delphi.
delphi forums is an u.s. online service provider and since the mid 1990s has been a community internet forum site . it started as a nationwide dialup service in 1983 . delphi forums remains active as of 2016 , claiming 4 million registered members and " more than 8,000 active forums " in 2013 . 
delphi forums is an u.s. online service provider and since the mid 1990s has been a community internet forum site. it started as a nationwide dialup service in 1983. delphi forums remains active as of 2016, claiming 4 million registered members and " more than 8,000 active forums " in 2013.
delphi forums is an u.s. online service provider and since the mid 1990s has been a community internet forum site. it started as a nationwide dialup service in 1983. delphi forums remains active as of 2016, claiming 4 million registered members and " more than 8,000 active forums " in 2013.