IIRC, there was another competitor of Prodigy and CompuServe around then

GEnie.

Its downfall was aladdin, a program you could use for unatttended
downloads of message boards and such. The name was cute, but the
program got long in the tooth and there would be no competitors as GEnie
was enamored of the name.

Jose
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