What's New?

2000

December 26

Talk City's stock price is below $0.2 It was as high as $29 for its 52-week range. Press Release (Dec 5, 2000): Talk City Marketing Group Announces Continued Transition to Services Business with Restructuring and Revised Estimates.

July 21

New books about Apple Computer: Insanely Great by Steven Levy (reissue edition) and The Second Coming of Steve Jobs by Alan Deutschman (available on September 12, 2000)

February 28

Pixelhaus, eWorld desktops and sounds

February 23

Listed on eBay: Apple Computer eWorld Coffee Mugs

January 10

Wow! AOL, Time Warner to Merge in Stock Deal

January 5

Apple Unveils Mac OS X and Internet Strategy at Macworld Expo

1999

July 21

Talk City IPO yesterday. Peter H. Friedman, President and CEO of Talk City, Inc., oversaw the launch and growth of eWorld.

July 10

The standard eWorld Town Square picture and then three examples of the custom interfaces designed by Diosa Design

July 10

MacWEEK has an article about Apple's ISP plan.

April 29

The book Apple Confidential has a section about Apple's eWorld, AppleLink and the investment in AOL.

1998

Dec 11

MSN pulling out of Canada

Sept 16

Do you know that the book Apple T-Shirts has two pictures of T-shirts about eWorld?

1. Greetings from eWorld! eWorld / Went to exciting places, met the most interesting people. Wish you were here! eTraveler 1024 The Infobahn Cyberspace
2. eWorld 1.1 Release! / Bug eXterminator

You can order the Apple T-Shirts book from Amazon.com

Aug 19

If you tried to download the End-O-EWorld file earlier, you might got the "access denied" message. It has now been fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Aug 18

We now have a new address <http://www.vanvr.com/eworld>. We will be using Yahoo's Club services for our message center.

Aug 18

Excite and Yahoo both offer community services, including chat rooms and message boards, in addition to their free e-mail services. Netopia will offer iMac users free e-mail and home page.

Aug 18

Apple has released iMac over the weekend.

July 24

It seems that you can order the beautiful book Defying Gravity : The Making of Newton from Amazon.com. Newton is a personal digital assistant that keeps track of addresses, phone numbers, appointments, lists, and notes. It also runs all kinds of Newton applications. Apple discontinued Newton earlier this year. You can read about the book to witness the struggle to bring Newton to the market. Newton and eWorld are kind of related because eWorld was part of the communication network for Newton. You could use your eWorld/Newton account to send messages from your Newton

July 15

Added a link to Bob Nebrig: Overview of eWorld Human Interface. BTW, eWorld icons can be found at Iconfactory. eWorld Desktop can be found at pixelhaus²

March 9

Talk City to offer FREE user home pages. Talk Citizens will automatically get a free 3Mb Home page on our new Home page service at http://home.talkcity.com.

Feb 27

Apple finally discontinues Newton. In contrast, General Magic Ships DataRover 840 and Unveils DataRover Remote Access Kit at Mobile & PDA Expo. Remember both MagicCap and NewtOS were introduced about the same time?

Feb 26

Be sure to visit the eWorld Memorial by Phil Nicholas (PhilEAC@aol.com)

Feb 19

e2World is launched on February 16th, 1998. " e2World is launched on February 16th, 1998. A place where Macintosh users can come together and chat, share computer knowledge, and work together to advance computers as we know them. "

1997

Dec 11

Youth Central, for kids and teens

December 6

For you interest, Cleo Huggins and Mark Drury were the art directors for eWorld. Mark Drury was the illustrator. (Graphis New Media 1 : A Compilation of New Media Design (Serial), Graphis Press, p. 192, 193)

 

And, it is still possible to purchase the Official eWorld Guide for Mac Users?! By Cary Lu, John Milligan, Ross Scott Rubin. Paperback, 403 pages, Published by Hayden Books, Publication date: November 1994

December 6

Where is Youth Central? Apparently, the site is not responding.

December 5

Multimedia satire: END-O-E WORLD (Mac version). "Here's what really happened to eWorld." Authors are Raven Zachary (raven@rinzai.com) and Dave Lebow.

December 4

Talk City to try e-commerce (from News.com)

December 1

Included lots of links about eWorld

September 2

Apple's Learning Community has some e-World-like graphics.

July 15

Durand will acquire E-Minds' trademark and logo (from News.com).

June 21

Electric Minds at http://www.minds.com will be closing down on July 1.

April 2

AppleLink, 13, succumbs to Internet (from MacWeek)

1996

December 20

A press release from Apple mentioned about the Apple Club, Apple's first web-based subscription service. "Apple Club offers customers a full-service software station, which allows easy downloads of Apple's latest performance-enhancing software updates, utilities, patches, and extensions; and exclusive discounts on products and services. The service marks Apples advent into the Internet commerce market."

November 20

Wow! no more. CNNfn reports that CompuServe would dissolves Wow! effective Jan. 31, 1997.

September 29

Apple now has a web site called Apple Community Site. Remember the disastrous launch of Apple Nooz? You can find it there, too.

September 28

I have been talked to MacGod15@aol.com. The eNet server is temporarily down. It will be active on October 1. The address is http://www.macsavvy.com/enet.

September 23

I am trying to figure out what is wrong is eNet Central's address. If you know the address, please e-mail me. Thanks.

September 2

Listed on the Links page of My Mac

July 24

This site is now listed under Apples BC Computer Society's Useful Internet Links and The Ultimate Macintosh's Apple Computer Pages. Of course, this site is also listed under Yahoo's Society and Culture:Cyberculture page.

July 15

Another network just got killed: AT&T cancels PersonaLink messaging service. I guess Sony MagicLink users are facing similar problems like what happened to Newton users a while ago.

July 13

Added a link to the EvangeList Web site

June 27

Check out the article from MacSense about eWorld reaches out from the grave. Please check your credit card statements to see if you are still being charged by eWorld.

June 23

Just to let you know that I am still maintaining the web site. :-)

March 28

The launch of the "Unofficial eWorld Farewell Web Site"