AOL Shuts Down CompuServe 224
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."
New email system? (Score:3, Insightful)
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
That'll never catch on.
Re:Fixing CS bugs from 1995! (Score:3, Insightful)
The days of the pages with the default gray backgrounds are finally gone!
I don't miss the old days of web browsing either -- but I do have my default background in SeaMonkey set to exactly that old shade of gray, and it's pleasant when I get a page that doesn't set the background color for me. (I know I could override it and have my preferred color scheme come up every time, but that seems like overkill.) Black-on-light-gray is a lot easier on the eyes than black-on-white when you're looking at a glowing screen. I'm used to the latter by now, but I do wish that people had kept in mind that screens and paper are not the same thing.
R.I.P. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Brings back memories (Score:3, Insightful)
Do you know of any public gopher servers that are still alive?
My list died out in the last four years when I wasn't watching.
Re:My Life as Girl on Compuserve (Score:3, Insightful)