{"id":830,"date":"2012-01-02T10:32:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T15:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=830"},"modified":"2014-05-08T14:11:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T19:11:40","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-welcome-to-eworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/830\/retro-scan-of-the-week-welcome-to-eworld","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Welcome to eWorld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/apple_eworld_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/apple_eworld_small.jpg\" alt=\"Apple eWorld Online Service Advertisement - 1995\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>The time Apple went AOL.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the lost era between Jobs (1985-1996), Apple produced many strange and ill-fated products.  Here we see an ad for <a href=\"http:\/\/lowendmac.com\/coventry\/06\/apple-eworld.html\" target=\"_blank\">eWorld<\/a>, Apple&#8217;s subscription dial-up online service that launched in June 1994.<\/p>\n<p>eWorld offered proprietary features like message forums, email, weather, news, and other information in a fashion similar to CompuServe, Prodigy, or AOL.  It also provided an early consumer portal to the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Due to its high price ($8.95 per month plus $7.90 per hour from 6 AM to 6 PM on weekdays), poor marketing, and the fact that the World Wide Web was breathing down its neck, eWorld never really took off.  Apple shut down the service in March 1996.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Discover, May 1995, p.27 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Did you ever use a subscription online service? Which one(s)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time Apple went AOL. In the lost era between Jobs (1985-1996), Apple produced many strange and ill-fated products. Here we see an ad for eWorld, Apple&#8217;s subscription dial-up online service that launched in June 1994. eWorld offered proprietary features like message forums, email, weather, news, and other information in a fashion similar to CompuServe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7,35,40,27,26,10],"tags":[151,150,101,830,828,829,60],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbs-history","category-computer-info-and-history","category-internet-history","category-macintosh","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-151","tag-advertisement","tag-apple","tag-discover","tag-eworld","tag-online-service","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}