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• bishophicks commented on Compuserve shuts down
  I had Compuserve in 1994 or so and it resulted in a banner year of "firsts" for me. First on-line purchase (laserdic player) First on-line travel arrangements/plane tickets First exposure to newsgroups (home theater, which resulted in laserdisc purchase) First exposure to on-line porn (alt.sex.*) First download of a game mod ("Aliens" mod for "Doom") Things change, life goes on, but the memories remain....
• Glenn Fleishman commented on Compuserve shuts down
  I wish I could remember my CompuServe ID. I was 11, a geek, had a 110-baud acoustically coupled modem for my OSI C1P -- and ran up a huge phone + data bill. My folks were furious, but coped. Eventually, I turned it into a career, and made it up to them....
• Janet McConnaughey commented on Compuserve shuts down
  CompuServe's "classic" e-mail accounts stopped working July 1. However, CompuServe forums are still active. One of the most active is the one I help run, Books & Writers (which was LitSIG when I joined in late 1983, and then for decades was The Literary Forum). Drop by -- http://community.compuserve.com/books and http://community.netscape.com/books both work. best, Janet McConnaughey Executive Sysop...
• Ned613 commented on Compuserve shuts down
  In a company where I worked in the early nineties there was a regional sales director that mastered MS Access. Whenever he had a technical question he logged on to CompuServe and posed it in the Access forum. Realizing the possibilities I immediately signed up. I was a networked PC platform applications developer and was thoroughly hooked on CompuServe’s forums. The chat forums were fun and it was easy to blow a whole evening chatting on-line. When AOL acquired it the spam problem killed them so I cancelled my subscription. The Internet made them irrelevant too. By then I was...
• moistureboy commented on Compuserve shuts down
  HELP PLEASE. I HAVE BEEN BEING CHARGED A MONTHLY FEE FOR (AUG, SEPT, and now OCTOBER). COMPUSERVE CONTINUES TO BILL MY CREDIT CARD FOR A SERVICE THAT DOES NOT EXIST. HOW DO I GET THEM TO STOP BILLING ME AND GET A REFUND? DO I HAVE TO JOIN/START A CLASS ACTION LAW SUIT, OR WHAT?...