Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Construction of the CompuServe headquarters in Upper Arlington from 1984. Chat forums and bulletin boards, email, widespread ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before there was a World Wide Web, a sizable chunk of all meaningful conversation between computer users happened in the forums at CompuServe, which was the dominant online service until AOL came ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you were lucky enough, as I was, to go to a technically-advanced school or work for a high-technology company in the 70s and 80s, you had Internet access. For most of us though the only way we had ...

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 ...

By 1995, over three million members were making use of CompuServe’s assorted resources. The text-based interface allowed any computer to dial into CIS, though a graphical interface was also available ...