CompuServe, actually established in Columbus, Ohio as early as 1969, initially offered remote services and time-sharing systems to provide computing services to users in need.
Later, with the development of the internet, it gradually evolved into what we know today as dial-up internet services. As for why people are accustomed to calling it "CompuServe," this actually carries a certain sense of mockery.
In the early '80s, in order to attract paying subscribers to its network services, CompuServe launched a series of online news partnership projects with the Associated Press.
CompuServe moved newspapers like The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Times, and The Columbus Dispatch online by scanning them into their system.
Then, the ridiculous happened; due to slow connection speeds, it typically took users 2 to 6 hours to download the scanned pages of a newspaper.
