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 (369 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • CompuServe is in the country of United States[3].
  • CompuServe's image is recorded as Aerial Views of CompuServe Corporate Headquarters 2 crop.jpg[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 logo image is recorded as CompuServe wordmark.svg[8].
  • CompuServe's headquarters location is recorded as Columbus[9].
  • CompuServe's ISNI is recorded as 0000000120339819[10].
  • CompuServe's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 131633278[11].
  • CompuServe's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as no91016952[12].
  • CompuServe's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 14019620c[13].
  • CompuServe's child organization or unit is recorded as The Source[14].
  • CompuServe's Commons category is recorded as CompuServe[15].
  • CompuServe's industry is recorded as telecommunications[16].
  • CompuServe's archives at is recorded as Computer History Museum[17].
  • +1969-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of CompuServe[18].
  • CompuServe was dissolved in +2009-07-06T00:00:00Z[19].
  • CompuServe's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0kbb8[20].
  • CompuServe's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as xx0134697[21].
  • CompuServe's parent organization or unit is recorded as Yahoo Inc.[22].
  • CompuServe's parent organization or unit is recorded as AOL[23].
  • CompuServe's official website is recorded as https://www.compuserve.com/[24].
  • CompuServe's topic's main category is recorded as Category:CompuServe[25].
  • CompuServe's product or material produced is recorded as online service provider[26].
  • CompuServe's Crunchbase organization ID is recorded as compuserve[27].

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Founding

+1969-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of CompuServe[18].

Operations

CompuServe's headquarters location is recorded as Columbus[9]. Parent organizations include Yahoo Inc.[22], a division[28], in United States[29], founded in 2006[30], headquartered in New York City[31] and AOL[23], an online service provider[32], in United States[33], founded in 1983[34], headquartered in New York City[35]. CompuServe's child organization or unit is recorded as The Source[14].

Industry

CompuServe's industry is recorded as telecommunications[16].

Ownership

CompuServe's product or material produced is recorded as online service provider[26].

Dissolution

CompuServe was dissolved in +2009-07-06T00:00:00Z[19].

Why It Matters

CompuServe ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (369 views/month).[2] CompuServe has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] CompuServe is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]

References

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  8. [10] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
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  15. [17] . computerhistory.org. computerhistory.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . km.aifb.kit.edu. km.aifb.kit.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [35] . 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. [36] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [37] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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