Wilkins replaced Goltz as CEO within the first year of operation. Though Golden United founder Harry Gard Sr.'s son-in-law Jeffrey Wilkins is widely miscredited as the first president of CompuServe, its first president was actually John R. in Columbus, Ohio, as a subsidiary of Golden United Life Insurance. In 2017, after Verizon completed its acquisition of Yahoo!, CompuServe became part of Verizon's newly formed subsidiary Oath Inc., which was then divested as the new Yahoo! company during 2021.ĬompuServe was initiated during 1969 as Compu-Serv Network, Inc. In 2015, Verizon acquired AOL, including its CompuServe division. A complex deal was devised with WorldCom acting as a broker, resulting in CIS being sold to AOL. In 1997, 17 years after H&R Block had acquired CIS, the parent company announced its desire to sell CIS. It was known also for its introduction of the GIF format for pictures and its system for exchanging GIF. At its maximum during the early 1990s, CIS was known for its online chat system, message forums for a variety of topics, extensive software libraries for most personal computers, and a series of popular online games, notably MegaWars III and Island of Kesmai. It dominated the industry during the 1980s and remained a major influence through the mid-1990s. 1969 54 years ago ( 1969) (as Compu-Serv Network, Inc.)ĬompuServe ( CompuServe Information Service, also known by its initialism CIS or later CSi) was an American online service, the first major commercial one in the world – described in 1994 as "the oldest of the Big Three information services (the others are Prodigy and America Online)."
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