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BeforeCompuServe was one of the first major commercial online services in the United States, offering email, forums, and dial-up internet access to subscribers before the World Wide Web became widely available.
AfterCompuServe was founded in 1969 as a computer timesharing service and introduced its first online service in 1979. It offered email, integrated internet access and over a thousand moderated forums where subscribers with shared interests exchanged messages and files, and it reported approximately 2.8 million subscribers to its interactive service in 1997. CompuServe was a subsidiary of H&R Block until its 1996 initial public offering. It later became an America Online service, still reporting roughly 2.8 million members as of June 30, 2000. AOL notified remaining subscribers that "as of June …