Back in the day, Compuserve was quite popular in the UK, and I had understood the rest of the Europe too.
I never used AOL, but I believe it was similar to Compuserve - a walled garden with forums, file downloads, instant messaging and such.
Like AOL, Compuserve reached popularity during the infancy of the web - the web, viewed through Netscape Navigator at the time, was really rather basic, and comparatively empty, or at least so it seemed to me at the time.
I actually remember thinking Compuserve was far superior to the web, and scoffed that the web would never take off. How wrong I was!
I am not sure but I think I used Compuserve too, in France. AOL came, but later and more as one Internet provider in many, and much like the others.
It was a bit difficult for us to understand the image and all the memes about AOL, so you had to learn that it meant "Internet for noobs / Joe Six-Pack" in American texts.
I never used AOL, but I believe it was similar to Compuserve - a walled garden with forums, file downloads, instant messaging and such.
Like AOL, Compuserve reached popularity during the infancy of the web - the web, viewed through Netscape Navigator at the time, was really rather basic, and comparatively empty, or at least so it seemed to me at the time.
I actually remember thinking Compuserve was far superior to the web, and scoffed that the web would never take off. How wrong I was!