"45 Years Ago, #CompuServe connected the world before the World Wide Web" -https://www.wosu.org/2024-09-24/45-years-ago-compuserve-connected-the-world-before-the-world-wide-web .
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"45 Years Ago, #CompuServe connected the world before the World Wide Web" -
https://www.wosu.org/2024-09-24/45-years-ago-compuserve-connected-the-world-before-the-world-wide-web . That was one of my first online experiences. I still remember I was 71510,1421 over there. And a wave to former CompuServe employee @eludom -
@eludom Occasionally, buried deep in a ZIP file that has been corrupted for more than 20 years, zip -FF from Info-Zip 3.x is able to resurrect something.
Today it's #TAPCIS. TapCIS was a front-end to #CompuServe which I wrote about recently at https://floss.social/@jgoerzen/113198374384885390 . CompuServe charged by the hour, and many people also had to pay by the minute for long-distance fees. So TapCIS would download stuff (messages, files, and file lists), and then you can read offline.
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