Decades before Google, Facebook and Amazon Web Services — all of which have invested billions of dollars in central Ohio — came along there was CompuServe, the first major online service that gave ...

A 1980 print advertisement for CompuServe Information Service shows a photo of the RadioShack TRS-80 microcomputer. Silicon Valley has the reputation of being the birthplace of our hyper-connected ...

Everyone’s abuzz about Web 2.0, and it’s no wonder. Facebook, MySpace and Twitter are some of the Internet’s most popular destinations, offering users unprecedented freedom to share content, engage in ...

Decades before Facebook and Google, there was CompuServe. Once the darling of the computer world — making Columbus, not Silicon Valley, the center of the tech world — CompuServe suffered through a ...

Chat forums and bulletin boards, email, widespread access to online newspapers and magazines, stock quotes and weather forecasts were among the host of products and services provided to users years ...

By 1995, over three million members were making use of CompuServe’s assorted resources. The text-based interface allowed any computer to dial into CIS, though a graphical interface was also available ...