CompuServe Classic: So Long, Old Friend<\/p>\n
“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. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n 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.) <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n 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?” <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n 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. ” <\/em> 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\u2019s 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 \u00a0\u00a0while the debate was still going, it was then I realize the net will change the face of politics.<\/p>\n There was other non politic stuff, I was introduced to Bill Holbrook\u2019s Kevin and Kell while on CompuServe and I still have some of my recipes downloaded form the cooking forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading
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