Chat forums and bulletin boards, email, widespread access to online newspapers and magazines, stock quotes and weather forecasts were among the host of products and services provided to users years ...

A 1980 print advertisement for CompuServe Information Service shows a photo of the RadioShack TRS-80 microcomputer. Silicon Valley has the reputation of being the birthplace of our hyper-connected ...

When the Internet was riding its '90s boom, one of the most heated battles played out in central Ohio. Columbus-based CompuServe, the first major commercial service that gave home-computer users ...

Decades before Facebook and Google, there was CompuServe. Once the darling of the computer world — making Columbus, not Silicon Valley, the center of the tech world — CompuServe suffered through a ...

Everyone’s abuzz about Web 2.0, and it’s no wonder. Facebook, MySpace and Twitter are some of the Internet’s most popular destinations, offering users unprecedented freedom to share content, engage in ...

If you were lucky enough, as I was, to go to a technically-advanced school or work for a high-technology company in the 70s and 80s, you had Internet access. For most of us though the only way we had ...

Before there was a World Wide Web, a sizable chunk of all meaningful conversation between computer users happened in the forums at CompuServe, which was the dominant online service until AOL came ...

1979: CompuServe begins offering a dial-up online information service to consumers. The company known as Compu-Serve, and later CompuServe, opened its doors in 1969, providing dial-up computer ...

On this day in 1979, CompuServe began offering its dial-up online information service to consumers. Though the company was founded in 1969 as a solutions provider that offered dial-up computer ...

Every day this week, as Fast Company readers vote to decide the single greatest geek moment in history, we’ll also present a debate over geek moments that we hope will get the arguments flowing. We’ve ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Construction of the CompuServe headquarters in Upper Arlington from 1984. Chat forums and bulletin boards, email, widespread ...

CompuServe was founded in 1969 as a way for Golden United Life Insurance’s computers to earn their keep via time-sharing to other businesses. The service expanded to the consumer market in 1979 ...