#compuserve — Public Fediverse posts

Thirty years ago today, Apple announced expanded email capabilities for the #Newton platform with the availability of a #CompuServe Mail Client.

#AppleNewton
#RetroComputing

https://web.archive.org/web/19990203175523/http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1996/q3/960424.pr.rel.compuserve.html

“You're about to enter CompuServe - your connection to the Internet and the world's premier online service.”

#RetroTech #90sComputing #DigitalNostalgia #OldSchoolTech #TechThrowback #1990sTech #CompuServe

CompuServe is still running? We're almost the same age. 😞 Bulletin boards, dial up sub 14.4 and Macintosh not MacOS is about where we started. A computer is just a tool. Switch out when it no longer serves you. #linux #macos #pc #atari800 #compuserve #dialup www.compuserve.com

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@aperalesf Compuserve era un servicio de una empresa norteamericana 'pre-internet', competidor de America-Online que se expandió por todo el mundo a base de nodos "locales".
Esto era a principio de los 80 y mi nodo 'local' estaba en Barcelona. Yo pagaba una cuota mensual, un precio por minuto de conexión y la conferencia interprovincial. En definitiva unas 8000 pesetas de la época a la hora.
Pero cuando hacias una pregunta sobre el compilador C de Boland es probable que te contestase uno de los ingenieros que lo había diseñado.
Compuserve puso una pasarela a Internet, pero cuando pusieron Infovia yo me borré porque el precio de conexion esa insostenible.
#internet #compuserve #dinosaurios
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe

#HashTagGames
#TextsFromThe80s

Sorry but I don't trust email because of the #RIME Space Moose. Everyone else has a bit-bucket, but RIME has Space Moose.
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Let's continue this conversation by #SnailMail please.
#BBS #Compuserve #SubGeniusSIG

Ich find's irgendwie lustig: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram waren fast konkurrenzlos unverzichtbar. Und mit einigen Kompromissen sogar nutzbar. Aber Gier und Hass machen sie immer unattraktiver und führen dazu, dass Menschen zunehmend alternativen suchen. Aus meiner Sicht als alter Internetuser und davor Mailboxen und #BTX erinnerst das sehr an den vendor locking damals von #CompuServe und #AOL. Wo es dann irgendwann Gateways gab. Und CompuServe musste dann auch Internet und #Email anbieten.

Repórter Retro 108

https://retropolis.com.br/2024/10/31/reporter-retro-108/

#ReprterRetro #68000 #68000EUmaNoites #8BitShowAndTell #AdrianBlack #AppleII #AppleIIc #BASIC #BBC #BBS #biblioteca #cartuchos #Ceefax #CERN #Commodore64 #CommodoreSX64 #CompuServe #DriveDeDisquete #elite #EUA #eZ80 #FORTRAN #Galaxian #GEOS #GeoWorks #Hackaday #HDMI #InterfaceGrfica #JecelMattosDeAssumpoJr #Livros #Macintosh #MacintoshII #MacintoshIIcx #MSDOS #namco #NES #Nintendo #PlacaDeVdeo #RC2014 #ReinoUnido #

#CompuServe was the first public online service with millions of subscribers and played a big role in pioneering online #gaming, real-time #chat, file #downloads, online #banking, message #forums and online #shopping in the #1980s.

#ComputerHistory #DEC #PDP10 #SC40

The liquidation of the #LivingComputerMuseum might ruin the last chance to save more #CompuServe data for historical research.

The last 9 #SC40 servers (#PDP10 derivatives) were saved from the dumpster 10y ago¹. One was sent to the #LCM and has been in storage since afaik. Of the other 8, all but one have disappeared.

What will happen to the LCM one now? Christie's probably not interested in it? Will it finally be scrapped?

¹) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu2hMtRjxH4

#PaulAllen #RetroComputing #TOPS10 #DEC

@petersuber I vividly remember the early days of the web when it was unclear whether it would matter to average people compared to walled-garden services like #AOL (then #AmericaOnline), #Prodigy, or #CompuServe.

IMHO the web’s early rise depended on two other factors:
• Graphical #browsers like #NCSA #Mosaic on mainstream computer operating systems (1993)
• Decommissioning of the US government-funded #NSFNET backbone, effectively ending restrictions on commercial Internet traffic (1995)

@weborguk @brianfagioli
Well said!
Haven't read the Atlantic yet, but you are right. My third day poking around on Mastodon (via newsie.social server started for journalism pros, profs, etc.), having flashbacks to my 1980s exploring #Usenet, #fidonet #BBSs, #CompuServe, #thewell, #BIX, #Delphi and more.

Very curious about whether the Federated model will get average-person friendly enough in apps, installation and navigation for my non-geek FB neighbor groups, powerful as a local newspaper.