CompuServe Ads: A Requiem for an Era
CompuServe's old ads play like excerpts from history of the consumer Internet.CompuServe Ads: A Requiem for an Era
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I think since the middle of 2000 did AOL show signs of struggling. From what I’ve been hearing about, AOL kicks ass in the US, but fails to make their mark across other continents. I think AOL wouldn’t shut down CompuServe unless they find new startups to replace it.
Thats nothing. I was there for the big 3 in the mid-90′s, before the dot com bubbled up. The big players as I remember were Compuserve, AOL and Delphi. I actually tried all three but AOL really got their stuff together, though ultimately would bow to the designs of HTML and the web as it evolved.
one thing I needed the AOL account as well was for newgroups. Even those are relics now since its so easy to get any kind of content on the web now.
Their empty promise reminds me of E-machines.