"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 21:15:16 -0700, "mgg" wrote:

I used to be a sysop on a popular forum on Compuserve, and when AOL came
along, the brain trusts at CIS thought they were king of the hill, and did
nothing... right up until AOL bought them. Thanks to those CDs...

Compuserve was the best back in the 80s and early 90s. They threw it
all away by not keeping up with the times. H&R Block treated them like
a cash cow and CIS management got complacent.


Absolutely. When CIS decided not to embrace the "new" internet, and continue
to charge extra for their content, they nailed their coffin shut. I was
involved in it all, and myself along with a bunch of other sysops begged
them to change policy. It all fell on deaf ears.

Compuserve *was* a cash cow, and it was milked dry. Prodigy and GEnie never
even got close to them.

--Mike