Veteran engineers, charged with developing new features for Prodigy Internet, often come to Kirkner with nearly completed code from projects abandoned years ago. But that is all history. As Prodigy went through changes at the top, members walked away. Wandering through the once populated chat rooms is like visiting a ghost town. Entire topic areas are empty.
Users huddle four at a time, even six at a time, in the few active rooms.
Bill Hinners, a longtime volunteer who moderates the food bulletin boards, waxes nostalgic. Now we have 25 or 30. And you notice it in the bulletin-board postings. We used to have eight or nine active topics. Now we have two or three.