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- dmcaudio, on 07/06/2009, -1/+31eh, the internet is just a fad. I'll stick to telegrams and newspapers.
- fragMasterFlash, on 07/06/2009, -1/+30I was too cheap to shell out the $. My local BBS community provided enough mischief for free.
- The_Ox, on 07/05/2009, -0/+24I still remember my CompuServe UserID with the comma !
- DrewBlood, on 07/06/2009, -0/+20Get off my lawn, punk.
- marmotjmarmot, on 07/06/2009, -0/+20I remember CompuServe, and GENIE. Starting a d/load, and going to get a drink, play darts, and smoke up while waiting....good times.
- Brak710101, on 07/06/2009, -0/+20You could just... Stop paying.
- marmotjmarmot, on 07/06/2009, -2/+20You should still try it, I hear the Internet is on computers now.
- nullcodes, on 07/06/2009, -1/+16I cant believe there was a time when calling someone long distance would cost a crapload of money. Now I have friends all over the world and it's no big deal talking to them online .. 25 years ago that woulda been ***** expensive.
We still don't have flying cars or cheap energy though. - sophiaperennis, on 07/05/2009, -0/+15I remember the boxed service CompuServe, back in the day a premium service.
- The_Ox, on 07/05/2009, -0/+14"This is one gigundus complex"
- DirtyVicar, on 07/06/2009, -1/+14http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3062/2791236204_4c8 ...
You gotta hand it to CompuServe -- this 1983 ad has a hilariously outdated style but they seemed to know exactly where the Web would go, 10 years before it even existed and 20 years before the widespread social networking really got going. - finn, on 07/06/2009, -1/+14bah, i was never a CompuServe-r, except in the way we ALL are, the graphic GIF format is a CompuServe remnant.
- ilikedemoon, on 07/05/2009, -1/+13whoa, wait a minute. Compuserve in 1969? They used to have to go online just to make a BASIC program in them days.
- Mockylock, on 07/06/2009, -0/+12Sad day. I remember when Prodigy and Compuserve charged hourly rates. I also remember the amount of money that was charged to my parents' credit card.
Maybe it's not so sad after all.
AOL anyone? - RunningboardV2, on 07/06/2009, -2/+13Compuserve for porn, and AOL for the "server" private rooms. Who's with me?
- zonk3r, on 07/06/2009, -0/+11I spilled some beer on my keyboard for my dead homies and former CompuServe-ers.
- dualaudi, on 07/06/2009, -0/+11I was a sysop from 8pm-6am... when my parents didn't need the telphone.
- getoffmybridge, on 07/06/2009, -0/+10Now those were the days. BBSes and Dwango
- INTERNETMASTER, on 07/06/2009, -0/+10they've gone to that big modem farm in the sky
- inactive, on 07/06/2009, -0/+9Just when I found a release copy of Duke Nukem Forever on CompuServe and started downloading it, they pull the plug. Figures.
- ProfessorRiffs, on 07/06/2009, -0/+9Come on, man. Try to at least do a thing.
- L0NER, on 07/06/2009, -0/+9early internet ftw!
- dn11, on 07/06/2009, -0/+9"We call it Email™" .... guess they didn't defend their trademarks very well.
- yayster, on 07/06/2009, -0/+972676,2377 was mine
MegaWars III was my drug. Credit card meltdown. - dmcaudio, on 07/06/2009, -4/+13eh, i was a Prodigy guy.
- DarkShroud, on 07/06/2009, -0/+8No, ASXII porn was the only thing that actually loaded fast.
- DrewBlood, on 07/06/2009, -0/+8You guys complaining about the monthly fees, I had to pay long distance fees on top of that! "Good times" indeed. But Cserve was definitely my first source for downloaded porn.
- zdiddy85, on 07/06/2009, -0/+7lmao mine was SeriousZDawg<~^,^~>
God I was cool.
EDIT: Looking at my current digg handle and my xbox live handle: "zuffdaddy". I guess things haven't changed much :( - Tarl, on 07/06/2009, -0/+7Agreed.
I wish I could digg you up a hundred times. BBS hopping was the *****. And if you somehow *managed* to get into the warez community it was like an ultimate unlock mode. :p
Although NWN on aol was pretty good times too. - lordmike, on 07/06/2009, -0/+7Hrmph.... Newbie!
REAL compuserve members had only a number ID... with that silly comma that made no sense whatsoever...
Only after AOL bought out CompuServe did one have the option of having an alphanumeric username... - skipvt, on 07/06/2009, -0/+6Reading this article reminded me of the good 'ol days of BBS's. I kinda miss the sound of a 300 baud modem's handshake.
- falconear, on 07/06/2009, -0/+6I used all of these, courtesy of my dad who was an insane hobbyist/tech geek ahead of his time. Compuserve really was ahead of the game, although my first real account was with Prodigy. GUI Online Interface? Hells yeah. Of course, I used to run a local BBS, and walk ten miles to school uphill...both ways, so yknow...;)
Anybody else remember Lynx, the non graphical web browser? - wjhonson, on 07/06/2009, -0/+6CompuServe first major mistake was ignoring the new way that Prodigy was doing things. Graphical. Kludgy but still graphical.
CompuServes next major mistake was ignoring AOL's way of doing things.
And that was it. They were done already back in 1990. - MrZaiko, on 07/06/2009, -0/+6I used to steal compuserve and prodigy username/passwords all of the time. using the password ***** reveal tool =)
Good times - lordmike, on 07/06/2009, -0/+5I remember wanting to get CompuServe so badly in the early 80's, but I didn't have a modem on my old 8-bit microcomputer, nor a phone line, and I know my folks would have had a fit with the monthly fees.... but, the whole concept of "online" seemed incredibly cool to be, even back then... definitely a service ahead of it's time, but not for long. Their graphical interface they created to compete with AOL did suck a lot... it still sent everything as text, only it was hidden behind a semi-pretty interface (that was ugly, slow, and unresponsive)... they could never catch up to AOL or Prodigy... the system was still stuck in the 70's... basic and pure... it should have stayed that way....
- zachgc, on 07/06/2009, -2/+7I used Compuserve back in '93. My mom has been charged $10 a month ever since because we couldn't remember our username/password to have them shut it off.
- johnnye, on 07/06/2009, -0/+5You should hope to live this long!
- onsenguy, on 07/06/2009, -0/+5OK, who remembers using TapCIS?
- Egotrippin, on 07/06/2009, -0/+5I started reminiscing when I read the title. Not sure how I feel about that.
- TigerStar337, on 07/06/2009, -0/+5I remember back in the day when "Gopher" was the search engine. This was before the Web existed. Back then, the Internet was Usenet and Email. Compuserve and others where really BBS not the "Internet".
- qwertydvorak, on 07/06/2009, -0/+5some of us graduated to the real net with hacked university accounts. that was after we were old veterans of the local BBS scene.
- Sneezyx, on 07/06/2009, -0/+4I was a CompuServe stalwart in the mid-80s; used it mainly for email and getting hints on games. Nothing like the essential resource GameFAQs is today, but fellow CIS users saved my bacon a bunch of times! Thanks, guys!
- skipvt, on 07/06/2009, -1/+5My first computer; Pentium II 486/dx/33, 8Mb ram, 300 baud internal modem, 14" color monitor. Complete H/D back-up took 11 1.44M floppies.
- lordmike, on 07/06/2009, -0/+4IIRC, a lot of software companies had exclusive "online" support via Compuserve years before the Internet became popular...
- lordmike, on 07/06/2009, -0/+4Didn't they charge something like $3 an hour back in the 80's? in fact, I don't think they dropped the hourly fees entirely until AOL bought them out...Can you imagine having to pay $3 an hour, in addition to the monthly service fee on a 300 baud modem?
- Pushkin, on 07/06/2009, -0/+4And Byte magazine. I had them all... That too passed
- FKnight, on 07/06/2009, -0/+4In 1985, Compuserve was $6/hour for 300 Baud, and $12/hour for 1200 Baud.
- inactive, on 07/06/2009, -0/+4End Of Line.
- DarkShroud, on 07/06/2009, -0/+4AOL brought us unlimited plans. I remember getting yelled at because I accidently left my Compuserve account logged in and went to the store. With AOL I was able to IRC all night about games & movies without a huge bill. Until my only local server shut down. By that time I could get Comcast, in 2003.
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