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- chrismwood, on 07/06/2009, -0/+55SCRRREEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Aaaand...connected!
Goodbye CompuServe. You were my first porn delivery system, and you will be missed. - GeekNurse, on 07/07/2009, -0/+49DOWNLOADING....
70% ---- 71% ---- 72% ---..... ATAS&G*&GZ^&TA()*(*ATZ NO CARRIER
"What the fu....?! MOM! DID YOU PICK UP THE PHONE?!?! DAMNIT!" - threon, on 07/07/2009, -1/+43pull the plug on AOL too.
- SilasTomorrow, on 07/07/2009, -0/+24It wasn't already shut down?
Oh.
Awkward.........(slowly shuffles away) - Pinkertinkle, on 07/07/2009, -0/+18do they still have a patent on the .gif?
- sinurgy, on 07/07/2009, -0/+12I finally had to get my own phone line simply for that reason!
- 89vision, on 07/07/2009, -1/+13And I bet the AOL people are just ***** splendid right?
- Bloodwine, on 07/07/2009, -0/+10{#`%${%&`+'${`%&NO CARRIER
- marx2k, on 07/07/2009, -6/+15"Back in the early days of the PC, CompuServe was the Google of its day."
Compuserve == ISP. Google == search engine. Stop writing articles. - 89vision, on 07/07/2009, -1/+9in terms of innovation it was
- thatkidrich44, on 07/07/2009, -0/+8I thought they killed that years ago? I used to work at AOL. The CompuServe team were such sad unhappy people.
- pagit, on 07/07/2009, -0/+7good bye Compuserve
I loved you when we first started going out
you were the first but did not change with the times and became expensive .
The bloatware I get whenever I install new software was like a previous girlfriend who kept writting letters in vain hopes that we would get back together
i do not miss you - never did and never will - rilus, on 07/07/2009, -1/+8@Presbyterian
Actually, Google was very innovative in terms of its specific search algorithms and indexing. If you don't know about a subject, it's better not to laugh at those who do. - JueYan, on 07/07/2009, -0/+7September has ended at last: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September .
- joblessjunkie, on 07/07/2009, -0/+6It's incorrect to call CompuServe an internet service provider. CompuServe did not provide access to the Internet; in fact it predates the modern internet by a decade. AOL also did not provide access to the internet for many of its early years.
CompuServe was definitely not the "Google of its day". It didn't make buckets of money; and it didn't become a household word. But it was groundbreaking, and an important part of the early PC landscape. - kromix, on 07/07/2009, -2/+872407,3343 ... User ID's with a random comma, goodbye forever.
- luken7, on 07/07/2009, -0/+6Pull AOL, keep Compuserve
- secrity, on 07/07/2009, -0/+6It was an artifact of the original PDP-10 architecture.
- headzoo, on 07/07/2009, -0/+5Dugg down for your lack of abstract thinking.
- PDAIsAOk, on 07/07/2009, -0/+5I thought CompuServe went out like a decade ago. Weird.
- diggydougie, on 07/07/2009, -0/+5I wrote a script to automatically dial up, log on and get the news and stock market quotes in less than 1 minute. I'm sure it's possible to still do that with web pages but I don't know where to begin to write a script to do the same thing that was so simple a couple of decades ago.
- AlextheK, on 07/07/2009, -0/+5The great thing about those was that they were common as mud. You no longer needed to buy floppies. You just grabbed a few AOL sign-up floppies and initialized 'em.
- AndrewDB, on 07/07/2009, -0/+5http://digg.com/tech_news/CompuServe_Ground_Breaki ...
Was on the front page yesterday. - inactive, on 07/07/2009, -0/+5You like to repeat yourself don't you DataAndData?
- solid12345, on 07/07/2009, -0/+4Ah the glorious good-old days of the internet, before they let the chavs on.
- SystemicThought, on 07/07/2009, -0/+4I just threw away a "Sign up now and get 700 hours free" AOL CD.
- luken7, on 07/07/2009, -0/+4best reply so far
- aabril, on 07/07/2009, -0/+4its about damn time
- inactive, on 07/07/2009, -0/+3I do so miss the AOL chat "progz" like the ability to make the entire chat screen disappear for everyone or the clock posting the time every second.
- kezekiel, on 07/07/2009, -0/+3Ah, my ticket to the world outside with my C-64 and 300 baud modem cartridge. At 300 baud, you could see the characters stream across the screen.
That said, good riddance. - Aero347, on 07/07/2009, -0/+3RIP Compuserve, Thank you. I can tell my grandchildren 'When I was your age all I had was a monochrome laptop and a 16Kbps dial up connection! And we liked it!'
- YuriSakazaki, on 07/07/2009, -0/+3Yeah, and YouTube was also pretty innovative. I don't get the LOL here.
- mareksoon, on 07/07/2009, -0/+3Well WE had it rough. We had four colors, black, white, magenta, and cyan on a computer connected to a TELEVISION, and an acoustic modem operating at 300 baud. No auto dial, no auto answer. We had to manually dial our rotary phone until we no longer heard a busy signal, the drop the handset onto the modem and PRAY.
Okay, we also had 8 colors in text mode but primarily black on green ... and no lowercase.
... and Chiclet keyboards! - SkullScrew, on 07/07/2009, -0/+3Ah, how I miss paying $6 an hour to play Island of Kesmai.
- AlextheK, on 07/07/2009, -0/+3But the CompuServe forums still exist. They're just called Netscape Forums now!
- Paranor01, on 07/07/2009, -0/+3That sounded like a 1200baud connection to me. I was in love with my 2400 when I got it, I almost couldn't keep up with the text as the data came in.
- luken7, on 07/07/2009, -0/+371422,1636. TRying to start a flood of "what was your ID"
- Roguecop, on 07/07/2009, -1/+4300 baud, $6 an hour. I think MUDS were born out of Compuserve which were the REAL first mmorpgs and oh yeah you had to pay an extra hourly charge for those. Can you imagine playing WoW at $12 an hour?
Too put 300baud in perspective; in the time it takes a broadband connection to download an image today, you would maybe get one line of text back then...IF conditions were right. - cuoops, on 07/07/2009, -0/+3One of the best commercials was from Compuserve during a Superbowl game(I can't remember the year). They played someone dialing up their isp and getting a busy signal, which happened to me all the time. They were promoting no busy signals.
- Gibletoid, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2They should release the code for the server side and make it open source, just, cuz, why not?
- ryanhayn, on 07/07/2009, -2/+4Compubeenserved?
- Robert5150, on 07/07/2009, -1/+3That was hilarious!
- Skurt, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2PCBoard, Fido, and YABBS.
Prodigy, Delphi and GEine, AOL didn't yet go far enough south when I lived in the DC/Metro area...
ahh the good old days... - mareksoon, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2Goodbye 76236,1621.
Did anyone ever archive the Compuserve forums kind of like google now has with the former dejavu archives of usenet, former whoever else archived usenet before them ... ? I was looking for my 'Internet history' and the oldest post I can find is April 1990. I know I had Compuserve activity that pre-dated that. While a far cry from the real Internet at that time, it would be a nice find.
Apart from that, I found logs from an old diversi-dial system I was on (mid 80's), but unfortunately, I wasn't logged in during what what archived. :( - secrity, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2It used to be a mainframe time share system. I don't know if it was ever put on Unix.
- secrity, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2Prodigy truly sucked -- it took minutes to download each page which was about 8 lines with about 16 characters per line - and each page had an advertisement on it (the advertising is what took up the bandwidth). Prodigy was etiher 300 baud or 1200 baud.
- ttamshadbolt, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2working on a dial-up help desk will do that to you
- LeeTXJD, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2If I remember my ID was 73540, 710.
It has been a loooong time. - mareksoon, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1Nice suggestion, thanks.
These were forums buried within Compuserve long before they connected to the Internet. Not too different from the message boards on your local BBS only vastly larger.
At the time, GO GRAPHICS was a favorite of mine, although I don't recall if there was an actual message board there. I do recall an old antique forum in which I posted a message looking for a picture tube for an early 1920's (I think) Zenith TV (round screen) in which I actually had a reply from someone who had two but someone else bought them before me. - bentrinh, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1Try http://www.archive.org/web/web.php ?
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