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CompuServe forums being shut down on December 15
11-15-2017, 08:55 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-15-2017, 08:55 AM by robkelk.)
The Register:
Remember CompuServe forums? They're still around! Also they're about to die
Who here is surprised that they were still in existence?
No reason given, but
The Register speculates that it's because they can't be monetized - which, if true, wouldn't surprise me at all.
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But words can break your heart.
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RE: CompuServe forums being shut down on December 15
11-15-2017, 12:26 PM
(11-15-2017, 08:55 AM)robkelk Wrote: Who here is surprised that they were still in existence?
<raises hand>
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I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
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RE: CompuServe forums being shut down on December 15
11-15-2017, 01:21 PM
<Raises hand>
And a moment of silence for the passing of an agent of change, please.
In a very real way, those hosted message boards were the seeds from which the WWW sprouted, a grandparent of todays social media.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to rock the sky?
Thats' every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry!
NO QUARTER!
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RE: CompuServe forums being shut down on December 15
11-15-2017, 07:08 PM
It does seem strange that I can still remember my CIS ID (72767,2004) when I have no idea what my GEnie account was. Both are almost twenty-five years distant now.
Did anyone else have the CompuServe-Hallmark animated e-card software package? The terminal program that was in it was able to display RLE images on screen as they were downloaded.
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RE: CompuServe forums being shut down on December 15
11-15-2017, 10:18 PM
The Loomis household's CIS# was (70415,1160). I never had GEnie, but I did have a Prodigy account... and I can't remember what the user ID was, only that I was Richard MacDuff in the Douglas Adams forum and Lelldorin in the David Eddings forum (sort of a beta version of the Future Disney Cabinet).
