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 ...

CompuServe was ultimately purchased by AOL, which “never supported a text system and entered the market with a much friendlier Windows-based point-and-click service,” says Schoenbach, whose ...

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 chief operating officer Audrey Weil says her firm can’t count on techies for survival. Most of them will bypass the on-line services altogether and head straight for the Internet.

Long before the advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web, there were other ways to go online, with Ohio-based CompuServe being the first to offer a consumer-oriented service on September 24, 1… ...

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.

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 ...

Before we were watching Netflix movies, video-conferencing with our friends, and playing real-time video games on the Internet, we were using online services, such AOL, CompuServe, and GEnie to ...

CompuServe 2000 version 6.0 lets users sort e-mail by date and also supports HTML to display messages with graphics and links to Web sites.

A central Ohio building that once served as the global headquarters for CompuServe has been recognized with historic marker status by the state.

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 ...