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CompuServe was initiated during 1969 as Compu-Serv Network, Inc. [a] in Columbus, Ohio, as a subsidiary of Golden United Life Insurance. [5]Though Golden United founder Harry Gard Sr.'s son-in-law Jeffrey Wilkins is widely miscredited as the first president of CompuServe, its first president was actually John R. Goltz. [6]
Writers Forum continues to hold workshops and to publish. The magazine And ceased in 2010; but Pocket Litter was started in 2011. A break-off "Writers Forum (second series)" workshop was founded in 2010, which, though having similarities in stated aims, is not supported by Writers Forum. [ 8 ]
Central Ohio is celebrating the history of CompuServe, the first major online service that put Columbus at the center of the tech world. CompuServe earns state historical recognition after ...
During the first half of the 1970s, Cobbing was able to use the facilities of the Poetry Society to produce Writers Forum books. In all, the press published over 1,000 titles between 1963 and 2002. As well as fostering the younger poets of the British Poetry Revival, Writers Forum also published works by John Cage, Allen Ginsberg and Ian ...
Writing the novel at a time "when the World Wide Web didn't exist", she did her research "the old-fashioned way, by herself, through books." [9] Later, Gabaldon posted a short excerpt of her novel on the CompuServe Literary Forum, where author John E. Stith introduced her to literary agent Perry Knowlton.
Cubby, Inc. v. CompuServe Inc., 776 F. Supp. 135 (S.D.N.Y. 1991), [1] was a 1991 court decision in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York which held that Internet service providers were subject to traditional defamation law for their hosted content.
The Compuserve Comics and Animation Forum's Don Thompson Awards (also known as the Thompsons) were given for achievement in comic books, comic strips, and animation. Initiated in 1992 , they were originally known as the Compuserve Comics and Animation Forum Awards for the CompuServe forum that created and gave out the award.
GEnie was founded by Bill Louden on October 1, 1985 [3] and was launched as an ASCII text-based service by GE's Information Services division in October 1985, and received attention as the first serious commercial competition to CompuServe.