CIS: CompuServe Forums, RIP

Enlarge / CompuServe brought millions of Americans "online" for the first time-before AOL and the Internet stomped it down. Now AOL is killing off CompuServe's venerable forums. (credit: CompuServe) In the 1980s and early 1990s, before America Online CDs clogged America's mailboxes and the word "Internet" had yet to be spoken by nearly anyone outside the tech world, CompuServe was the Internet for most people. Even as the Internet rose into more general awareness in 1994, CompuServe-aka CompuServe Information Service-was still how a significant majority of people in the US got "online." But AOL's move to a monthly subscription model instead of metered dial-up time in 1996 (plus something called... Read More