After three decades, current owner AOL decides to pull the plug on CompuServe Classic, formerly one of the Internet’s premier service providers. Although its forums and other services once attracted hundreds of thousands of users, CompuServe eventually lost ground to services such as AOL and as its subscriber base migrated from dial-up services to broadband. AOL plans to port CompuServe’s e-mail subscribers to a new system.
– After 30 years, CompuServe Classic was finally shut down for good by AOL.

Throughout the 1980s and early ’90s, CompuServe was a premier Internet
provider, attracting users to its forums and other services. It was one of the
dial-up networks that Bill
Gates obsessed about in the early 90s, and …