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 ...

A decade before the World Wide Web was a thing, CompuServe was the biggest player in the online service space. You could connect to the service with a dialup modem and chat, engage in message forums, ...

I called my old friend Charles Bowen the other day. It was Charlie who persuaded me more than a dozen years ago to buy a modem for my personal computer and start using the latest technological ...

It turns out that Instant Messenger (AIM) isn't the only thing that AOL is shutting down next month. On December 15th, Oath (AOL and Engadget's dear parent) is also closing what remains of the ...

The company contracted with networks such as Tymnet to share dial-up access numbers, giving CompuServe subscribers widespread access across the U.S. Access fees depended on your modem’s rate: 300 bits ...

[url=https://arstechnica.co.uk/civis/viewtopic.php?p=34333367#p34333367:3mp38hzj said: thekaj[/url]":3mp38hzj]I recall checking out CompuServe back in college (I was ...

UK customers of CompuServe have been hit with huge telephone bills after the online service provider's client software caused their PCs and modems to call a US access number without their knowledge.

Modems fall into the category of computer hardware known as peripherals. But if you talk to anyone who uses a modem in a business application, they”ll tell you the modem is hardly peripheral to their ...

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 ...

Some enterprising folks developed offline reading and composing software (TAPCIS), so you only had to connect for a few seconds. Thus avoiding the high hourly charges. Click to expand... I was a big ...