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[–] Cobrachicken@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fuck AOL they killed CompuServe.

[–] TheFlopster@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Someone else remembers CompuServe?!

[–] cman6@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Back when your email address and username were: 583947690@compuserve.com

Good times!

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Oh my god that’s the funky shit.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago
[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago

I loved CompuServe, back in the day.