Why is Compuserve shopping stock quotes after being taken down by AOL? Explain?
CompuServe, the first major online commercial service, has been shut down by AOL. The announcement that the Internet service, which has had several iterations and name changes since its earliest origins in 1969, was closed brought a wave of nostalgic messages from users of the once-dominant service. Many of its subscribers are planning to cling to the service. Begun in 1969 as Compu-Serve Network in Columbus, Ohio, it became the CompuServe Information Service and was later rebranded as CompuServe Classic. That latter service was shut down July 1, although a watered-down version called CompuServe 2000 is still in operation. CompuServe’s pioneering e-mail service gave many consumers their first taste of Internet connectivity circa 1989. Later it introduced thousands of forums, moderated by system operators or “sysops.” The forums ranged far and wide from sports and stamp collecting to electronic gadgets and photography. (Many of its prominent sysops and forum contributors have since turn
