Closed by its parent company AOL from July 1 as ISP CompuServe Company of founder of trade, mean CompuServe Company has finished its 30 years' operation.

AOL close move this, Company of CompuServe, impel other the intersection of CompuServe Classic and patron of series use substandard product ISP of company this such as on June 30 CompuServe 2000, it runs the continuation as before. Users can change their classic 9 and classic 10's E-mail address into CompuServe 2000 service. CompuServe Company (or the CIS) Established in 1969 at first, and offered computer service for him to the network as a constituent company of life assurance of Golden United on the market of Columbus of the state of Ohio of U.S.A..

According to Wicky's encyclopaedia, the original functions and powers of CompuServe Company are to offer internal computer processing to support Golden United life assurance, it pass until business hours hire out PDP and 10 the intersection of intermediate range and time of computer, make its the trade develop an independent business into rapidly when the computer assigns to. It was broken out as an independent company in 1975.

CompuServe Company provides E-mail function and technical support for its commercial customer since 1978, it has also provided it for the skilled workers of a lot of trades to experience online for the first time. No doubt, its golden age was in the eighties of last century (the majority was used for exchanging the electronic file) And the beginning of 1990s, the E-mail at this moment and presiding over the forum in the computer crowd extremely popularly.

In fact, CompuServe Company claimed it exceeds the online at the same time of 500,000 users in 1991, and by 1995, its number of members has already topped 3 million, has become the online service supplier of maximum at that time.

However, at as it begins and new rival such as AOL competitive time, CompuServe is mauled, because of AOL intensive marketing activity, and the one that offered the monthly payment to user instead of using CompuServe is by way of charging hour, this makes AOL obtain market share rapidly.

AOL purchased CompuServe Company in 1997, but this company was still regarded as a single service company within one period, and is ignored seriously by its parent company. With growth and popularization of the WWW, a lot of organizations have closed CompuServe customer and supported the forum, on the contrary they begin to offer customer support through one's own websites.