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AOL Shuts Down CompuServe 224

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 04, 2009 @01:08PM from the real-men-use-base-eight dept.

Oracle Goddess writes "After 30 years, CompuServe is all but dead, as AOL has pulled the plug on the once-great company. The original CompuServe service, first offered in 1979, provided its users with addresses such as 73402,3633 and was the first major online service. CompuServe users will be able to use their existing CompuServe Classic (as the service was renamed) addresses at no charge via a new e-mail system, but the software that the service was built on has been shut down. Tellingly, the current version of the service's client software, CompuServe for Windows NT 4.0.2, dates back to 1999."

Comment Getting on the bandwagon (Score 1) 143

by rip20c on Tuesday October 03, 2000 @06:41AM (#736153) Attached to: X-Box Limitations

I hate to submit a "me too" post, and have resisted thus far, but this issue of repeating stories really is getting out of hand. I don't know which is worse, repeating a story from a month ago (a la the Gamecube story) or from a few days ago (a la the Xbox story). Either way it appears sloppy to the reader.

I don't like to complain about a website that provides this much content for nothing, but there really should be a system in place to prevent this from happening.

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