Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Jul 2009 13:42 UTC, submitted by Dale Smoker
"CompuServe, the first commercially successful online and email provider in America, has been shut down by AOL after 30 years of service. The original CompuServe â" later renamed CompuServe Classic â" was laid to rest July 1, 2009. In a message sent to its remaining subscribers, AOL urged customers sticking with cheap dial-up to move on to the company's surviving sub-brand ISP, CompuServe 2000."
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I believe you are thinking of UUCP, Kroc. Unix-to-Unix Copy. It was used worldwide, not just in europe, and used bangs to separate machines in paths. You had to actually give routing information to get something sent to a specific user on a specific machine. like someserver!anothermachine!helf.
quite fun...