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 ...

One of the original e-mail providers, CompuServe, isn’t for geeks anymore. A newly unveiled interface gives the venerable service some of the functions of its parent, America Online. The CompuServe ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CompuServe Founded: 1969 (as Compu-Serv Network); 1979 (as CompuServe Information Service)Status: Available at CompuServe.com CompuServe was founded in 1969 as a way for Golden United Life Insurance’s ...