<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.dispatch.com/news/20171001/now-shadow-of-its-former-self-compuserve-blazed-trails-online">http://www.dispatch.com/news/20171001/now-shadow-of-its-former-self-compuserve-blazed-trails-online</a><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35);font-family:"Crimson Text",Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:17.5px">“The big watershed event was when the internet was released from being a government-funded thing to being a piece of public infrastructure,” Lambert said. “The most expensive asset we had — the network — all of sudden that network was ubiquitous and cheap. That was really the beginning of the end.”</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35);font-family:"Crimson Text",Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:17.5px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35);font-family:"Crimson Text",Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:17.5px">CompuServe attempted to deal with the threat of internet rivals by erecting a home page and then by introducing an online service for novice users, dubbed Wow! But after Wow! flopped after only eight months, it was clear that the company had been resting on its laurels for too long.</span></div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>---------------------------------------------------------------<br><span>Joly MacFie <span title="Call with Google Voice">218 565 9365</span> Skype:punkcast</span><br>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>-</div></div></div>
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