Before there was a World Wide Web, a sizable chunk of all meaningful conversation between computer users happened in the forums at CompuServe, which was the dominant online service until AOL came ...

A 1980 print advertisement for CompuServe Information Service shows a photo of the RadioShack TRS-80 microcomputer. Silicon Valley has the reputation of being the birthplace of our hyper-connected ...

Decades before Google, Facebook and Amazon Web Services — all of which have invested billions of dollars in central Ohio — came along there was CompuServe, the first major online service that gave ...

CompuServe Requiem (((written by David Goldes on the basexblog site, for those among you piloting in off Twitter links and who might somehow imagine that I write all the text on this site myself))) ...

Who would have thought thirty years ago we'd have 60Mbps Internet connections in our homes? Back when I started online, in the late 70s, the only way you got on the Internet was at major universities ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Before Microsoft. Before AOL. Before Google. There was CompuServe. Jeff Wilkins, former CEO of CompuServe Founded in Columbus, Ohio in 1969 as a unit of Golden United Life Insurance, ...

I knew that both AOL Instant Messenger and CompuServe’s forums—both part of AOL, which is part of Oath, which rolls up into Verizon—were going away. But I missed the fact that the actual day of ...

1979: CompuServe begins offering a dial-up online information service to consumers. The company known as Compu-Serve, and later CompuServe, opened its doors in 1969, providing dial-up computer ...

In the 1980s and early 1990s, before America Online CDs clogged America’s mailboxes and the word “Internet” had yet to be spoken by nearly anyone outside the tech world, CompuServe was the Internet ...

Chat forums and bulletin boards, email, widespread access to online newspapers and magazines, stock quotes and weather forecasts were among the host of products and services provided to users years ...

It turns out that Instant Messenger (AIM) isn't the only thing that AOL is shutting down next month. On December 15th, Oath (AOL and Engadget's dear parent) is also closing what remains of the ...