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CompuServe & The First Online Newspapers
Topic Started: Sep 24 2014, 06:15 PM (54 Views)
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The Poytner Institute: Today in media history: CompuServe and the first online newspapers
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The CompuServe dial-up service played an early role in the development of online communications. It was first offered to the public on September 24, 1979.

Although it is often forgotten, CompuServe helped share some of the first online newspapers. The following video shows what it was like to read CompuServe’s “electronic journalism.”

You could read an online newspaper as early as July 1, 1980. All a reader needed was a computer, such as an Apple II or the TRS-80 desktop model, and a modem with access to the online CompuServe dial-up service.

The first newspaper to go online was The Columbus Dispatch. It was part of a unique CompuServe and Associated Press experiment about the potential of online papers. Eventually other AP member newspapers were part of the project, including the Washington Post, The New York Times, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Francisco Examiner, the Los Angeles Times, The Virginian-Pilot, The Middlesex News, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Although it ended in 1982, the CompuServe/AP experiment became a crucial step in the history of online journalism.


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