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| ====Background==== | ====Background==== |
| American People Link (or PEOPLE/LINK) was an online service headquartered in the Chicago suburbs and operated by American Home Network , Inc (Elizabeth McGinnis, President). Little information is available regarding the services it provided or years of service. It was accessible via the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet|Telenet]] PC Pursuit packet-switched network, but it is not known whether it had dial-in numbers of its own (the rate plan showing different connect charges for non-PCP logins suggests that there was). The service offered [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotex|Videotex]] graphics as well as text data. | American People Link (or PEOPLE/LINK) was an online service headquartered in the Chicago suburbs and operated by American Home Network, Inc (Elizabeth McGinnis, President). It was accessible via the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet|Telenet]] PC Pursuit packet-switched network, but it is not known whether it had dial-in numbers of its own (the rate plan showing different connect charges for non-PCP logins suggests that it did). The service offered [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotex|Videotex]] graphics as well as text data. |
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| Users were known to each other as "Plinkers", according to a [[https://www.facebook.com/groups/plinkers|Facebook group]] dedicated to former members of the service. | Users were known to each other as "Plinkers", according to a [[https://www.facebook.com/groups/plinkers|Facebook group]] dedicated to former members of the service. |
| The September 1989 issue of the [[https://vtda.org/pubs/SW99ers/sw99ers8909.pdf|Southwest Ninety-Niners]] newsletter mentions a rate restructuring at APL on page 3. The hourly rate for 300, 1200 or 2400 baud service during non-prime hours was reduced from $4.95/hr to $4.50/hr. Prime-time connections were billed at $7.95/hr for 300 and 1200 baud, with 2400 baud service during prime hours incurring a $9.95/hr charge. The new addition to the rate plan was a per-kilobyte //download// charge (uploads with the XModem protocol remained free): | The September 1989 issue of the [[https://vtda.org/pubs/SW99ers/sw99ers8909.pdf|Southwest Ninety-Niners]] newsletter mentions a rate restructuring at APL on page 3. The hourly rate for 300, 1200 or 2400 baud service during non-prime hours was reduced from $4.95/hr to $4.50/hr. Prime-time connections were billed at $7.95/hr for 300 and 1200 baud, with 2400 baud service during prime hours incurring a $9.95/hr charge. The new addition to the rate plan was a per-kilobyte //download// charge (uploads with the XModem protocol remained free): |
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