CompuServe, 1969-2009?

I'm not going to pretend I can figure out this cascade of dates, but it seems that in some significant fashion the embers of what was once with early AOL (its eventual buyer, I think... maybe) one of the initial, commercial places on the Internet a lot of folks talked about comics have had water poured over them. I remember well the golden afternoons of 1994, when we crowded around our office's single linked-up computer to insult each others' children and to hash out which person tangential to comics was most dishonored by the Journal and in what way and why. Seriously, that old Comics and I think Animation forum was the least friendly place to alternative comics in the entire world. It was like going to a bar where within the first 30 seconds a bouncer would punch you square in the face. It was like a suggestion box people could poop in. This is sort of what it was like, except that you couldn't run away. Participation on the CompuServe forum led to at least TCJ's more general on-line presence, in the sense of Gilligan and the Skipper building a raft to get all the castaways off the island. It probably also drove a lot of other on-line efforts in a much more benign fashion. I will spend the waning hours of this getaway day thinking of Pat O'Neill and Don Labriola.
 
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