AOL's AIM client is compatible with CompuServe, Netscape, IBM's Lotus Notes and Sametime, and RealNetworks.
Steve Wilhite created the Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, while working for Compuserve in 1987.
Porter rebadged it E-Trade Securities in 1992, for use via America Online and CompuServe.
If you dialed up and logged onto CompuServe or AOL, you were "online" until you disconnected.
The retired US-based software writer developed the Graphics Interchange Format in 1987 while working at the internet service provider Compuserve.
CompuServe was well suited to the constantly changing nature of news, because we could update stories in virtually no time at all.
The company runs two global online services, AOL with more than 20 million members, and CompuServe, with more than 2.2 million members.
The case began when Bavarian prosecutors raided CompuServe offices in December 1995.
The online avant garde in 1990 were dialing up to CompuServe's text-based service or AOL, and you couldn't send email between those two services.
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AOL's strength in the consumer market (over 14m subscribers, with another 2m from its Compuserve subsidiary) should complement Netcenter's greater appeal to the business market.
Ms. Roney: Back then, there was CompuServe, Prodigy and America Online.
While working at CompuServe in the 1980s, Wilhite created the compressed 8-bit GIF (or Graphics Interchange Format) that remains a popular tool for lo-fi viral sharing.
He says when he was 14 he got an Apple II, and he set up a bulletin board system, before CompUServe and AOL. He says he saw the power of sharing.
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It's no secret that the old scarcity model of celebrity culture--regular people only got a glimpse of famous people, which made them want to see them that much more--vanished sometime in the CompuServe era.
By the end of the trial on May 28, 1998, even they agreed with the defence that there was no technology available at the time that would have enabled CompuServe to block internet content.
Defence attorney Ulrich Sieber said Mr Somm, who was head of CompuServe's German subsidiary, had no technical means of blocking such sites, but still managed to get the US parent company to do so several times.
But there were already signs that, with its mix of games, e-mail, chat, news, forums, travel and other information, Mr Case's service had a bounce that well-financed but stodgier rivals, such as Prodigy and CompuServe, lacked.
When Bavarian prosecutors launched their investigation, CompuServe, based in Columbus, Ohio, blocked access to 200 electronic message boards for all of its then four million users worldwide, setting off an international debate over censorship on the internet.
And, while we can argue over just how open the web remains, if Ramzan's tweet had been locked inside something like the Compuserve network of the 1980s rather than out on the web, then Sheila might never have seen it.
When Andrew Fluegelman first got hold of an early IBM PC, he noticed that there was no way to exchange files with other PC users or log on to early services like CompuServe or The Source or computer bulletin boards.
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