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| 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. |
