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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After months of being prodded by its shareholders to take advantage of the white-hot market for Internet stocks, H&R Block yesterday said it plans to spin off its CompuServe online service. The ...

AOL Time Warner on Thursday confirmed Gecko sightings in test versions of CompuServe 7, a sign that the technology could replace Microsoft's Internet Explorer as the online service's default Web ...

A central Ohio building that once served as the global headquarters for CompuServe has been recognized with historic marker status by the state. At its height in the 1990's, the pioneering tech ...

Executives at the CompuServe Internet dialup service said negotiations with a mystery suitor, which may or may not be America Online Inc., continued on Thursday as the focus of the currently raging ...

Compuserve Inc., one of the world’s largest commercial information services, said yesterday that it planned to become a global service provider for businesses and individuals wanting to connect to the ...

Decades before Google, Facebook and Amazon Web Services — all of which have invested billions of dollars in central Ohio — came along there was CompuServe, the first major online service that gave ...

How short our memories are. Before everyone connected to one massive Internet, a variety of smaller commercial online services with names like CompuServe, GEnie, Prodigy, Delphi and, of course, ...