Today is Independence Day, the 249th official birthday of the United States of America, and I’ll be celebrating. It’s also ...

Australia has a financing problem for the 23 GW of wind and solar it needs to build by 2030. It would be nice if super funds ...

The ARPANET was a project started by the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Project Agency in 1969 to network different mainframe computers together across the country. Later, it evolved into the ...

Millennials, pour one out. TMZ reports that Elwood Edwards, the voice behind AOL’s iconic “You’ve Got Mail” audio message, has died at age 74. His former employer, WKYC-TV Studios in ...

When I first got online in 1994 or so, the World Wide Web was in full flower but had yet to obscure other efforts to bring people together on the Internet. CompuServe was among them, and even then was ...

CompuServe remained competitive with the other big online services, such as Prodigy and AOL, through the mid-1990s. However, none of these services were able to fully adapt to the huge shift that came ...

On September 24, 1979, Columbus-based CompuServe launched its online service for consumers. Its subscribers were among the first to have access to email, online chat, digital newspapers and the ...

It mainly triggered memories about Usenet for me (like founding the rec.arts.int-fiction newsgroup), though I would have liked to see some discussion of BITNET messaging and commercial online services ...

Central Ohio is celebrating the history of CompuServe, the first major online service that put Columbus at the center of the tech world.

Central Ohio is celebrating the history of CompuServe, the first major online service that put Columbus at the center of the tech world.

A Central Ohio building that once served as the global headquarters for CompuServe has been recognized with historic marker status by the state. At its height in the 1990’s, the pioneering tech ...