{"id":1059,"date":"2014-06-17T11:27:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T16:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2021-06-25T08:17:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T13:17:12","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-my-compuserve-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1059\/retro-scan-of-the-week-my-compuserve-password","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> My CompuServe Password"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/compuserve_password_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/compuserve_password_small.jpg\" alt=\"Benj's CompuServe Password - 1993\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>I still love my dad&#8217;s handwriting.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here it is, folks: My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/tag\/CompuServe\" target=\"_blank\">CompuServe Information Service<\/a> password that I used from 1993 until the late 1990s: &#8220;Needy-Sacred&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to log in as me the next time you get a chance.  (I kid.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Needy-Sacred&#8221; is an almost magical combination of words for me &#8212; probably because it bounced around my mind so often in the 1990s.  It has a tension to it; a phrase at odds with itself.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t make it up, though.  CompuServe assigned random combinations of two words (with a dash in the middle) as user passwords, and this is the hand I was dealt.<\/p>\n<p>Well, &#8220;we were dealt&#8221; would be more accurate.  This is the original note paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/tag\/dad\" target=\"_blank\">my dad<\/a> used on February 21st, 1993 to write down the password to our new CompuServe account, which he set up for use with his business.<\/p>\n<p>Heavily into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/914\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-cave-bbs-turns-20\" target=\"_blank\">BBSes<\/a> at the time, I became the primary user of the account (surprise surprise).  Soon his company often asked me &#8212; even as a young teenager &#8212; to relay international emails to and from Germany for them since I knew how to use it.  Ah, those were the days.<\/p>\n<p>The Encounters Forum was my favorite place to hang out.  That, and the Atari Forum.  GO ATARI.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Personal note from Benj Edwards&#8217; collection dated 2\/21\/1993]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Tell us your best CompuServe stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still love my dad&#8217;s handwriting. Here it is, folks: My CompuServe Information Service password that I used from 1993 until the late 1990s: &#8220;Needy-Sacred&#8221;. Feel free to log in as me the next time you get a chance. (I kid.) &#8220;Needy-Sacred&#8221; is an almost magical combination of words for me &#8212; probably because it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7,35,27,26,10],"tags":[97,376,595,1713,1712,689,1399,60],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbs-history","category-computer-info-and-history","category-internet-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-97","tag-compuserve","tag-dad","tag-encounters","tag-go-atari","tag-online-services","tag-password","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}