http://www.osnews.com/story/21787/CompuServe_Signs_Off Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:11:39 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?372099 http://osnews.com/thread?372099 Compuserve reminds me of the days when nothing was standard. Remember e-mail addresses like phone numbers, and the British e-mail system that used an exclamation mark. I'm not sure what that system was called so can't bring up the specifics.

At least that's one more walled-garden dead. If only AOL would follow suit. Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?372143 http://osnews.com/thread?372143 Oh you're too harsh. CompuServe is from that era of computing that was actually exciting and unknown, when writing in Visual Basic for DOS was awesome, Captain Comic was considered cutting edge and browsing through the shareware catalogs felt like being a kid in a candy shop.

Long live CompuServe, in our memories! Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (flanque) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?372171 http://osnews.com/thread?372171 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... Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (helf) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?372992 http://osnews.com/thread?372992 Compuserve was decent before AOL took it over. Stupid AOL. Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tuishimi) Comments