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, ...

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 3.0 and 2.5 were designed for just those users. The new software was designed as an improvement over version 2.0.1, which was CompuServe’s first attempt at being the gateway to the ...

“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… ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

“CompuServe combines the power of your computer with the convenience of your telephone!’’ Woah! Too bad you didn’t also get that man popping out of the screen.

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 ...