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    Compuserve Information Service

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    Short for CompuServe Information Service, one of the first and largest online services. CompuServe supports a wide array of forums and provides many types of electronic-mail services. In addition, it is connected to hundreds of different database systems. In 1997, the content portion of CompuServe was acquired by America Online and the network service was acquired by WorldCom.

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