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, ...

“Adult” is one of those perfectly good words that cautious people handle with tongs. Once used only to describe hard-won maturity, it’s also come to symbolize the kind of sordid a… ...

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's history dates to 1969, before the company set up shop at Arlington Centre Boulevard. Wilkins and his father-in-law, Harry Gard, founded CompuServe as a computer-time sharing service ...

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 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 ...

July 1981 cover of CompuServe’s magazine. 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 ...

But CompuServe lost its way, eventually outfoxed by rival AOL in the 1990s. All of this may seem like ancient history now, especially in the fast-moving tech industry.

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

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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 ...

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 ...