Comments on: Goodbye, Compuserve

By: Jeffrey Powers

Jeffrey Powers — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:25:25 +0000

Thanks all for the comments.

By: susabelle

susabelle — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:27:03 +0000

I still have an old piece of image editing software that uses compuserv to indicate what type of output you want. It’s really a .gif output, but it says “compuserv.” Ah, those were the days!

By: Alison

Alison — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:44:26 +0000

Wow. I grew up using Compuserve in the mid 1980′s – remember how exciting it was to have notice boards and swap chess moves or trade recipes… One of my earliest memories were of navigating the internet using Compuserve. Thanks for the memories and for the childhood moments.

By: John Knights

John Knights — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:27:17 +0000

Compuserve was a fantastic provider in it’s day and like so many others I too hooked up to them as my first ISP in the early 90′s.

Like AOL though they seem to be a victim of relevance. While the hand-holding was a great thing during the internet’s infancy it is now viewed as cumbersome and even obstructive to the main purpose of the internet – open standards, information available equally to all.

Thanks for the launchpad to something great, you’ve done a great job and earned your rest.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:12:02 +0000

I remember having Compuserve as my first Internet provider as a kid. Back in the early 90′s it was them and AOL. We had so many minutes to use each month so one really needed to watch what they were doing and how long they were online.

This exciting time in my life and watching the Internet grow helped me realize what the Internet could provide. Today the Internet is everything and more than what I could have expected. Think we’ll ever see a day that Google shuts it search engine down? Perhaps in 20-30 years….

Thanks Compuserve for being my first Internet Provider.