Compuserve

After 30 years, Compuserve is finally, totally, mostly dead (the email addresses still work).

Boing Boing 2009

Case even feels confident enough to mock the efforts of his competitors to lure away his dissatisfied users (such as Compuserve's now notorious "AOL busy signal" Super Bowl ad): "It's like people saying that they should come to our restaurant because it's empty."

Is Aol Out Of Lines? 2008

This reminds me of another story that took place many years ago, at the dawn of the Internet era when we still used gateways to get email from other networks, such as Compuserve and MCIMail (may their memories be honored).

David Strom's Web Informant 2009

"fata morgana" - a vision of a lush oasis shimmering on the horizon that turns out to be a dangerous delusion and leads travelers to their deaths. smart piece responding to Carr's love note, Slate writer Jack Schafer said tablets "can't possibly save magazines and newspapers," and compared the industry's infatuation to earlier dalliances with interactive CD-ROMs and online portals such as Compuserve and AOL.

Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2010

"fata morgana" - a vision of a lush oasis shimmering on the horizon that turns out to be a dangerous delusion and leads travelers to their deaths. smart piece responding to Carr's love note, Slate writer Jack Schafer said tablets "can't possibly save magazines and newspapers," and compared the industry's infatuation to earlier dalliances with interactive CD-ROMs and online portals such as Compuserve and AOL.

GigaOM 2010

I remember when the internet was all new and sparkly and just waiting to have one poke around all the corners and edges to see what turns up, one could browse for weeks on end just through the hundreds of uploaded text databases on Compuserve alone.

the diminishing description 2009

Compuserve, on whose forums so many fannish flame wars were fought out, is no more.

Web/Tech 2010

Back in the day of dial-up, we used to pay per minute to the phone company, plus we paid per hour to the provider (think X. 25 networks or Compuserve or whoever).

Austin Bandwidth Hog Claims Time Warner Cut Him Off 2009

I used to go to game parlors and play, made friends there, speaking not only about swords and crystals, combo breakers and special attacks, but also about AI, the future and technology, about that mysterious thing called the Internet (I met a girl who tried Compuserve!) and about nuclear war.

Venezuela bans violent video games: a first-person guest essay - Boing Boing 2009

I remember when the internet was all new and sparkly and just waiting to have one poke around all the corners and edges to see what turns up, one could browse for weeks on end just through the hundreds of uploaded text databases on Compuserve alone.

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