given the nature and significance of the online world, it would have been more appropriate to retire the phone number. what percentage of people who used CompuServe had a clue where it was?
yeah, was just thinking how random this story is, as in all the things when I think about CompuServe, where it was physically located is not something that comes to mind or something that even matters haha.
But whatever, fun bit of trivia for....Upper Arlington.
What does "retire the phone number" mean?
Prevent its reuse. Like when a sports team retires a player number or United never having a Flight 93 again.
But what phone number?
Maybe their directory-published "telephone number" - presumably they only had one of those.
It was a long, long time ago, but I seem to recall a 1-800 if you were on the road somewhere.
Eh, I grant your point but it's probably higher than you might think. I was an early and devoted (and thus usually broke) Compuserve user, and visited the now-preserved building back in the mid-90s. The CIS user base skewed, I would say, heavily nerd, and heavily enthusiast, and it wouldn't surprise me to learn somehow that a large percentage of the people who used the service, at least in the early days, knew where it was headquartered. Certainly would not have been true after the AOL acquisition.