Goodbye Compuserve

[Ben]

David Griffith wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Ray Arachelian wrote:
>
>> I only got to use this service a few times back in my younger days, and
>> even then, only with the demo accounts, and that at 300 baud (yes, baud,
>> not just BPS.)
>> I really couldn't afford their insane prices, but from what I saw back
>> in the day, it was a huge, vast place with lots of goodies.
>>
>> http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/03/compuserve-shuts-dow.html
>> http://www.basexblog.com/2009/07/03/compuserve-requiem/
>
> I was under the impression that the classic Compuserve was 
> discontinued at least ten years ago.
>
Same here. The other factor back then too, often your nearest data 
centre, was still a goodly
sum long distance call.
Ben.