Interesting facts from Wikipedia[0]: CompuServe was founded in 1969 as Compu-Serv Network (as a subsidiary of an insurance company), a commercial time-sharing

Interesting facts from Wikipedia[0]: CompuServe was founded in 1969 as Compu-Serv Network (as a subsidiary of an insurance company), a commercial time-sharing service with focus on business customers. It did so by renting time on its PDP-10 midrange computers during business hours. In 1977, they changed their name to CompuServe Incorporated. In 1979, it began offering a dial-up online information service to consumers. Radio Shack marketed the residential information service MicroNET, in which home users accessed the computers during evening hours, when the CompuServe computers were otherwise idle. Its success prompted CompuServe to drop the MicroNET name in favor of its own. By the mid-1980s, CompuServe was one of the largest information and networking services companies, and it was the largest consumer information service. CompuServe was the first online service to offer Internet connectivity, albeit with limited access, as early as 1989 when it connected its proprietary e-mail service to allow incoming and outgoing messages to be exchanged with Internet-based e-mail addresses. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe