CompuServe Classic: Thanks for the memories

CompuServe Classic: So Long, Old Friend

No, your monitor won’t blank out, your Internet connection won’t stall and your PC won’t crash, but a major event is about to ripple across the Internet today: CompuServe Classic is closing.

After 30 years the plug will be pulled on what was once the finest online service on the globe. (CompuServe 2000, a newer iteration of CompuServe will continue.)

And the saddest part is that it ends not with a bang, but with a whimper. Ask anyone about CompuServe today and the response will probably be “Are they still around?”

And that’s not fair for a service that once meant so much to cyberspace–long before we started calling it cyberspace. It dates to a time when most home PCs didn’t even have hard disks, just floppy disk drives, and when most PC users never went online. ”
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I signed up after my discharge form the navy in 1993; I was on both Prodigy and CompuServe, pre-internet. In a way the 1990’s were the start of conservative activism on the net. I remember the first attempt to pass the farness doctrine in 1993, for the first time we had the bills in hand   while the debate was still going, it was then I realize the net will change the face of politics.

There was other non politic stuff, I was introduced to Bill Holbrook’s Kevin and Kell while on CompuServe and I still have some of my recipes downloaded form the cooking forum.

About Scatcatpdx

I am just an average Joe living in the People Republic of Portland Oregon. I was a Republican Precinct Person for Washington County, and campaign volunteer. Now I am a IDKWIA (I Don't Know What I Am). I am a bible believing Christian who is Calvinist and Reformed in my theology and Anglican in worship and practice. My other interest are music (classical and world, Progressive Trance), drawing, and Fury Fandom, I consider myself a furry lifestyler.. I am a Ham Radio operator.
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