CompuServe

American online service provider
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CompuServe

Summary

CompuServe is a business[1]. CompuServe ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,433 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • CompuServe is in the country of United States[3].
  • CompuServe is in the country of GB[4].
  • CompuServe's instance of is recorded as business[5].
  • CompuServe's instance of is recorded as enterprise[6].
  • CompuServe's instance of is recorded as subsidiary company[7].
  • CompuServe's headquarters location is recorded as Columbus[8].
  • CompuServe's child organization or unit is recorded as The Source[9].
  • CompuServe's Commons category is recorded as CompuServe[10].
  • CompuServe's industry is recorded as telecommunications[11].
  • CompuServe's archives at is recorded as Computer History Museum[12].
  • January 1, 1969 marks the founding of CompuServe[13].
  • CompuServe was dissolved in July 6, 2009[14].
  • CompuServe's parent organization or unit is recorded as Yahoo Inc.[15].
  • CompuServe's parent organization or unit is recorded as AOL[16].
  • CompuServe's official website is recorded as https://www.compuserve.com/[17].
  • CompuServe's topic's main category is recorded as Category:CompuServe[18].
  • CompuServe's product or material produced is recorded as online service provider[19].
  • CompuServe's legal form is recorded as H0PO[20].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300QSDZU85U1I6F19[21]

  • Registered legal name: Compuserve Limited[22]

  • Legal jurisdiction: GB[23]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[24]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): H0PO[25]

  • Entity status: INACTIVE[26]

  • LEI registration status: RETIRED[27]

  • LEI first registered: 2017-12-21[28]

  • LEI last updated: 2024-12-16[29]

  • LEI next renewal: 2019-12-18[30]

  • Managing LOU: 213800WAVVOPS85N2205[31]

  • Registration authority: RA000585[32]

  • Authority entity ID: 01230269[33]

  • Conformity flag: NOT_APPLICABLE[34]

Body

Founding

January 1, 1969 marks the founding of CompuServe[13].

Operations

CompuServe's headquarters location is recorded as Columbus[8]. Parent organizations include Yahoo Inc.[15], a division[35], in United States[36], founded in 2006[37], headquartered in New York City[38] and AOL[16], an online service provider[39], in United States[40], founded in 1983[41], headquartered in New York City[42]. CompuServe's child organization or unit is recorded as The Source[9].

Industry

CompuServe's industry is recorded as telecommunications[11].

Ownership

CompuServe's product or material produced is recorded as online service provider[19].

Dissolution

CompuServe was dissolved in July 6, 2009[14].

Why It Matters

CompuServe ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,433 views/month).[2] CompuServe has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[43] CompuServe is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[44]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . computerhistory.org. computerhistory.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [21] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [24] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [25] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [26] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [27] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [28] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [29] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [30] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [31] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [32] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [33] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [34] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [35] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [36] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [37] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [38] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [39] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [40] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [41] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [42] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [43] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [44] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → 239C-8A4D-C646-8DC8-9266
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  2. 18w ago · M2k~dewiki · 2026-05-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:CompuServe
    Parent org → —
    Child organization or unit → The Source
    Industry → telecommunications
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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