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 ...

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 ...

In the 1980s and early 1990s, before America Online CDs clogged America’s mailboxes and the word “Internet” had yet to be spoken by nearly anyone outside the tech world, CompuServe was the Internet ...

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 ...

CompuServe's Internet address. When originally sending email to a CompuServe customer via the Internet, the comma in the CompuServe account number was turned into a dot; for example, account ...

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 ...