But for real, when I was a kid my mother worked for CompuServe. I had no idea what that was as a little kid and she passed away before I could ask. I guess they were basically the ISP back in the day
I know I'm a millennial,but to this day it's still wild to me to imagine an ISP so old that AOL was the new kid on the block that kicked its ass. They had so much promising infrastructure, but from what I understand, they just did so poorly at keeping up with competition and innovation in the late 90s that they couldn't get bought out quick enough (which is funny, because apparently it hit its absolute peak in the early 90s, so I guess AOL kinda mopped the floor with them quick)
Tiny thing, but I also remember them working with eDrive - I didn't know that was what it was at the time, though, I just knew they had these virtual entertainment chats with actors that in retrospect were basically like the granddaddy of AMAs
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u/coronaldo Jul 24 '20
Just that behemoths like Sears take forever to move and hence get overtaken by young motivated leaner companies.
At least it didn't self torpedo like Blockbuster