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==Market share== {{Expand section|date=June 2008}} Long the largest [[online service provider]], by 1987 CompuServe had 380,000 subscribers, compared to 320,000 at the [[Dow Jones News/Retrieval]], 80,000 at [[The Source (online service)|The Source]], and 70,000 at [[GEnie]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pollack |first=Andrew |date=September 15, 1987 |title=Ruling May Not Aid Videotex (Published 1987) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/15/business/ruling-may-not-aid-videotex.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref> CompuServe had three million users worldwide at its peak, compared to AOL's 27 million. By early 1999, many home users had switched to standard [[dial-up Internet access]], and CompuServe had decreased to two million users, most of which were business or professional users".<ref name=NavWire99/>
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