Talk:CompuServe

message: H&R Block bought CompuServe in 1986 (not 1980 as stated). This is public record, and I worked for CompuServe then & know firsthand. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.251.171.218 (talk) 19:38, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  - 1986 is misinformation. Pi314m (talk) 03:26, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

text: Your link leads to a 404, but the stuff you rewrote seemed pretty innocuous to me, just PR-speak for some straightforward facts; I don't think copyvio would really be much of a concern. Regardless of that, your wording is better. - DavidWBrooks 21:11, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: For what it's worth, CompuServe started their unlimited internet plan before AOL. CSI acquired Spry in 1995, and on August 1, 1996, launched SpryNet, which was just dialup without any of the added services, but at an unlimited price. CompuServe's WOW product (a MS Bob-like interface to CompuServe) also offered all-you-can-eat-pricing. AOL followed a few months later. SpryNet never really caught on though, and WOW was a fairly bad idea, and you know the rest of the story.
I worked for Spry around the time of the SpryNet launch, so I'll try to see what I can add when I have more time. --Jkonrath 23:26, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why Sprynet never really caught on, Jkonrath? Humble2000 19:49, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sprynet, Unlimited Pricing 

message: I saw a ref to GAMEY get added and then deleted, so I thought I'd explain it here. GAMEY stands for Google, AOL, Microsoft, eBay, and Yahoo!, who are the top companies with the resources to buy up their smaller competitors. I don't think it's right to mention GAMEY, given that the AOL buyout of CSI happened when two or three of these companies didn't even exist, let alone were buying up others. --Jkonrath 20:58, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is GAMEY? 

message: I saw this removed from a previous edit, but Sandy Trevor did invent CompuServe's CB function. Take a look at his bio at http://nuvocom.com/nuvo_bak.htm or just go to CB Simulator, where it's also mentioned. --Jkonrath 18:57, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  CB Inventor 

message: This article could do a better job discussing the text-based user interface that was standard for CompuServe in the 1980's, prior to the development of it's CompuServe Information Manager GUI interface. I would imagine their are a significant number of computer users these days who don't realize that early online services did not have an GUI-based interface. Also the article should point out that because CompuServe used a text-based shell interface it allowed for anyone with a basic terminal communications program to access the service, unlike AOL with it's proprietary GUI-based Access program. Also their should be a mention of CompuServe's later introduction their GUI interface program known as CompuServe Information Manager that provided a limited graphical interface for users of DOS, Windows 3.1 and Mac OS. --Cab88 23:00, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: FYI, I added these a while back, including WinCIM. David Spalding (☎ ✉ ✍) 13:39, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early and later CompuServe user interfaces 

message: The current article just mentions CompuServe 2000 in passing. There needs to be some text that describes the origin of CompuServe 2000. I was a CompuServe user in the mid-1990's, and as I recall, it was an AOL-like alternative to WinCIM that was marketed as an "upgrade" to WinCIM after AOL acquired CompuServe. However, IIRC, Classic CompuServe users who unwittingly chose to install it found that their user account and mail service were switched from CompuServe to AOL. And, I think, their dial-up network changed from the CompuServe network to the AOL network. Does anyone have the facts? Wdfarmer 20:49, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't, that was after I'd canceled, but I DO remember that AOL install discs about that time ("AOL version 7" ?) were notorious for changing Windows 95 and 98 networking (dialup settings) setup. Without warning. Causing a lot of users much grief. (It was also infamously difficult to cancel their service, but that's another tale.) I worked at a firm where I urged the IT team to alert all associates about it as if it were a Trojan. If you search CNET or ZDnet columnists, I'm sure you'd find teh articles in which they were talking about it. Dvorak wrote about it, too, probably. - David Spalding (☎ ✉ ✍) 13:50, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  CompuServe 2000 

message: The article makes it appear as if Compuserve is incompatible with Windows Vista; however, I came upon the following from Compuserve's official website today: CompuServe for Windows 98 / ME / XP / Vista CompuServe Dialer, which suggests that they are somehow supporting Vista. Can someone verify this point or elaborate on it in the article? Thanks! --24.154.173.243 22:23, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Compuserve and Windows Vista

message: Have just added the (sad) news that CompuServe has closed its Pacific network and will be closing France...
91.171.192.207 09:05, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Closure of services

message: The section on WOW! really needs to be re-written. It starts out OK as far as describing the service but ends up in a discussion of H&R Block's machinations within Compuserve that do not really have that much to do with WOW! and should be put elswewhere.
I was a WOW! subscriber and can attest to the fact that the service was extremely buggy,. especially the email. There were frequent shutdowns. It was diferent because of its very bright colored, seemingly hand-drawn pages family-friendly content. However.. it is not mentioned in the article that WOW! was the FIRST internet service to be offered with a monthly "unlimited" rate ($17.95) and that it had a small but VERY loyal fan base that believed they were "sold out" by Compuserve because they were being bought out by AOL, who mysteriously began offering a $19.95 unlimited service as it was cutting WOW!'s throat. There was a strong group of "WOWIES" who fought for 5 years after its demise, to stay connected through chat groups (on AOL for instance) and a web ring. Sadly, they seem to have all been consumed in the corporate greed of AOL/Time Warner. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.96.106.130 (talk) 14:39, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WOW! 

message: This section:
:CompuServe was the first online service to offer Internet connectivity, albeit limited access, as early as 1989 when it connected its proprietary e-mail service to allow incoming and outgoing messages to other Internet e-mail addresses.
appears to be in contradiction with this statement over on the CIX article:
:In 1988 [CIX] provided the first commercial Internet email and Usenet access in the UK.
which suggests that CIX was a year earlier. Does anyone have a reliable source for either statement?
I was a member of both CIX and CIS and thinking about this further, I don't remember exactly when I joined but I do know that it was no earlier than April 1991, and that CIS internet email connectivity was not available when I joined. I can remember it going live while I was a member, which would put CIS's internet access date even later. Paypwip (talk) 14:36, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I found a relevant reference in the internet article so I copied the reference to this article. I hope I did that correctly. Sam Tomato (talk) 20:05, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

text: So probably CompuServe just was not very good about telling us about technology. I remember them offering X.25 but I did not know what it was good for and could not get it to work. Sam Tomato (talk) 20:08, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  First to offer Internet connectivity? 

message: The article is incorrect in describing the allocation of user ID's as I was allocated a 6+3 digit 1xxxxx,xxx user ID in late 93 or early 94. 78.105.161.231 (talk) 09:34, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  User IDs and e-mail addresses 

message: CompuServe took off after the VIC-20 and C64 took off for Commodore. They were putting CompuServe membership disks right into the boxes of their modems and even possibly computers, and the Commodore Information Network became the most popular section of CompuServe. After Commodore switched to partnering with Quantum-Link, CompuServe started to dry up. This is a big part of CompuServe's history that is totally missing. JettaMann (talk) 19:09, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: CompuServe partnered with many computer manufacturers, not just Commodore. For instance, they included CompuServe membership IDs with every TRS-80 system sold through Radio Shack, and even paid Radio Shack to keep demonstration systems running CIS in all of their stores. If you can find reliably sourced information, feel free to add it to the article. Xenophrenic (talk) 20:33, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  How is Commodore not even mentioned once? 

message: UK shopping centre is a product and should not have its own article. Athleek123 18:43, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm the original author of that article and, yes, your're right, it belongs in the main CompuServe article. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Khumzi (talk • contribs) 09:00, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger Proposal

message: "CIS" isn't an acronym unless it's pronounced as "kiss" or "siss". If it's pronounced "SEE-EYE-ESS", then it's an abbreviation, strictly speaking, an initialism. I edited it but my edit was undone. MarkRae (talk) 22:16, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Acronyms are not required to be pronounceable as a single word unless you feel the need to be prescriptivist. See acronym. That said, people go both ways on it - "C-I-S" I've heard most commonly, with "sis" popping up less frequently. --Xanzzibar (talk) 22:46, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Acronym 

message: http://web.archive.org/web/19961020023945/http://ourworld.compuserve.com/ While I don't know whether it might be interesting to include this archive link in the article (I'm known to always ask around first before putting these in), I think it's a nice part of history that the 1996 version of OurWorld got preserved. :) Let alone that the design of that ancient logo somehow gives the impression of an anti-racist message embedded in there. ;) ("All people are equal, regardless of their ... etc.") -andy 2.243.99.192 (talk) 07:22, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''ourworld.compuserve.com'' - A nice trip down memory lane 

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message: I take it as a GF statementthat Wiki supports editing the old fashioned way, and the resulting wrap-a-round that comes from notpaying attention (being considerate) is that lines aren't as easy to edit as they could be.  This is not about reader-content
but "don't bite .." Pi314m (talk) 06:45, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
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