AOL’s RAINMAN

I mentioned this system in a prior issue – this was the proprietary CMS that AOL was built on. I did some search and found an original user manual for it, dated August 1995. I skimmed it, and it seems like content creation was effected using a custom scripting language, rather than a UI. They had “Interactive RAINMAN,” that sounds like a scripting window inside the AOL interface, or you could submit scripts via email. We’ve come so far.