kobo

July 08, 2009 at 8:51am

 

After I got my first IBM clone computer (a screaming 25mhz machine with a staggering 4mb of RAM boosted up (at the cost of $140.00) to a earth shaking 8mb I subscribed to AOL, CompuServe and Prodigy. Prodigy was dropped quickly and by the end of one month I knew CS was the service for me; it was a high School to AOL's kindergarten.

CompuServe expanded my knowledge of the world, computers and the internet in so many ways; heck, it even changed my life when I met my wife in one of the forums 14 years ago.

Helping out folks with their issues I met people from all over the world. One man in particular was from Holland (I could tell from his node code) and asking him whereabouts I found that not only did I once live right near him when I stayed there back in the 1970's, I used to deliver the newspaper to his house as well. Talk about a small world.

I was a wizop in WUGNETs multimedia forum when AOL bought CS out Although they promised things would stay the same it did change in ways I was just not comfortable with. The early WinCim (v1 - 2.6) was light, quick and a breeze to use. When 3.0 came out (AOL with a different screen) it was a buggy clunky piece of carp. We were asked not to bad mouth the software to folks in our forums and I thought I would bite my tounge off resisting the urge.  I hated CS 2000 with a passion and moved on, reluctantly at first, to greener pastures.

It was a great service, I met great people, and I had a blast. Thankyou CompuServe

K

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