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CompuServe Classic laid to rest. Tom Krazit, Digital Media blogger at CNET News, writes a classic obit, with pointers to the memories of those for whom CIS's "7xxxx,xxxx@cs.com" was their first email address. He begins, CompuServe Classic, the initial on-ramp to the information superhighway for a generation of Americans, has died. It was 30 years old. CompuServ was the pricey dialup ($10 an hour in the 1980s), home to geeks and businessfolk. I was neither, but I had stumbled across the modem-based home computer "bulletin boards" -- BBSes -- in 1989, free alternatives with their own mail- and file-sharing networks, and hopped on. So this comment at CNet struck a chord. As AOL signup software disks appeared in your mail, your newspaper and pre-loaded on new PCs in the '90s, I read similar posts there, anticipating the arrival online of the barbarians: Yup, been through it all. The last vestige of the early days has winked out. |
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