CompuServe Classic: So Long, Old Friend
“No, your monitor won’t blank out, your Internet connection won’t stall and your PC won’t crash, but a major event is about to ripple across the Internet today: CompuServe Classic is closing.
After 30 years the plug will be pulled on what was once the finest online service on the globe. (CompuServe 2000, a newer iteration of CompuServe will continue.)
And the saddest part is that it ends not with a bang, but with a whimper. Ask anyone about CompuServe today and the response will probably be “Are they still around?”
And that’s not fair for a service that once meant so much to cyberspace–long before we started calling it cyberspace. It dates to a time when most home PCs didn’t even have hard disks, just floppy disk drives, and when most PC users never went online. ”
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I signed up after my discharge form the navy in 1993; I was on both Prodigy and CompuServe, pre-internet. In a way the 1990’s were the start of conservative activism on the net. I remember the first attempt to pass the farness doctrine in 1993, for the first time we had the bills in hand while the debate was still going, it was then I realize the net will change the face of politics.
There was other non politic stuff, I was introduced to Bill Holbrook’s Kevin and Kell while on CompuServe and I still have some of my recipes downloaded form the cooking forum.
