45 years ago CompuServe connected the world before the World Wide Web
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CompuServe, founded in 1969 in Ohio, was an early online information service provider. Launching its consumer service in 1979, it offered email, online newspapers, and file sharing. CompuServe's forums and chat features created early digital communities.
Initially accessed through slow dial-up modems, CompuServe competed with services like Prodigy and AOL until the mid-1990s. However, it struggled to adapt to the Worl
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