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Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 6:33 David Rosenthal But if you rewind just a little bit back to, like, 92, 93, 94, even into early 95, going online for consumers meant using a service like CompuServe or Prodigy or, of course, the big one, AOL.
- ▶ 7:27 David Rosenthal I think the best way to sum all this up is, do you know who owned the CompuServe service at the time?
- ▶ 27:26 David Rosenthal Anyway, ok, meanwhile, remember the online services, the CompuServe, you know, Prodigy, AOL, etc.
- ▶ 42:36 David Rosenthal Microsoft has now done deals with AOL, CompuServe, and Prodigy, all the old online services to ditch whatever browsers they were using and bundle in Internet Explorer.
Visa (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:12:07 David Rosenthal We're now in the 19 eighties here, but they realized during this that there's this new fledgling kind of consumer networking service out there called CompuServe.
- ▶ 2:12:20 David Rosenthal And for folks who either weren't alive in the U.S. at this time or not Americans, CompuServe was like an AOL competitor in the early days of the internet.
- ▶ 2:12:33 David Rosenthal So as a consumer, you would pay a monthly fee to CompuServe or AOL or whatever, and it would be your internet service provider, but also like your email and, you know, your portal to the web.
- ▶ 2:12:46 David Rosenthal So they somehow get in touch with CompuServe, and they realize that CompuServe has this dynamic where they've architected out their network
- ▶ 2:13:07 David Rosenthal Visa ends up renting CompuServe network capacity to send their digital transactions from merchant point of sale terminals.