RIP Compuserve...

AOL has terminated the CompuServe Internet service. For those of us who have been on the Internet since the days of Betty, Veronica, Archie, Gopher, and Lynx remember CompuServe as one of the first commercial Internet services - it's been around since the 70s - sort of a private Internet almost - well it's gone now.

I will always fondly remember the hundreds of unsolicited floppy disks (5 1/4 and 3 1/2), and later on CD-ROMs offering connectivity through CompuServe (and then later on AOL after AOL consumed CompuServe - anyone still have CompuServe or AOL beer coasters?). I will even admit to having a CompuServe account for a few months (yep, I actually installed one of those hundreds of floppy disks :-)...

CompuServe hasn't been the same since the advent of high-speed access and has now been relegated to the halls of the Computer History Museum.

RIP CompuServe...