Back to Dick's Gadget Warehouse!
May 27, 2013 Post a Comment 
It’s not really a gadget that I found at the warehouse this week. But it was something important if you were one of the first to get on the Internet. It’s one of my CompuServe installation discs! Don’t remember Compuserve? CompuServe was the first online service to offer Internet connectivity, but it wasn’t cheap. It was about $10 an hour! During the early 1990s the hourly rate fell from over $10 an hour to $1.95 an hour. In April 1995, CompuServe topped three million members, which was the largest online service provider. However when AOL introduced a far cheaper flat rate, unlimited-time price plan of $24.95, it caused a significant loss of CompuServe customers. I was one of them that left CompuServe to go over to AOL. In 1997 AOL acquired CompuServe.
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Our letter of the week:
Dear Lord High Viziers of the Gadgets, Eternal Rulers of SkyMallia and Keepers of the Crap,
A few shows ago, you featured the Bactrack Keychain Breathalyser. Well, I was scouting around the InterWebNetSphere and found an iPhone version! I thought it might be interesting as not only does the TWiT staff like testing these gadgets (as shown by the Bactrack), with this version you not only can share your BAC with the world, you can see who else is flat hammered while you are. And privacy be gone!
Love the TWiT shows (I've been listening since 2010),
Jackson in New Zealand.
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