CompuServe Information Service


CompuServe Information Service

(company)(CIS) One of the services run by CompuServe Corporation. CIS provides a wide variety of information andservices, including bulletin boards, on-line conferencing,business news, sports and weather, financial transactions,electronic mail, travel and entertainment data as well ason-line editions of computer publications. CompuServeInformation Service should not be confused with CompuServeCorporation's other sectors which offer many other servicesbesides the consumer information service.

CIS is a large international conferencing system (albeit witha heavy US bias). It provides an access to the Usenet news(GO INTERNET). More comprehensive Internet access wasplanned for the end of 1994.

Compuserve's main competitors were AOL and Prodigy. Thenames CI$ and Compu$erve, once used in sig blocks, referto CompuServe's high charges.

http://compuserve.com/.