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AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online [1]) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City, and a brand marketed by Yahoo! Inc. The service traces its history to an online service known as PlayNET.
- What Was AOL, and Why Was It So Important?
- AOL's Rapid Expansion
- Decline and Fall of An Online Empire
- End of The Line For AOL
America Online (AOL) was born as Quantum Link in 1985—long before the HTTP, HTML, browsers, and the World Wide Web even existed—and offered email, online chat, news, file sharing, and instant messaging alongside a selection of online games. Rebranded as AOL in 1989, the company was ideally placed to provide services to Americans eager to get online...
The technical barriers to entry into the new and ballooning online world were low, but the financial requirements were not. You needed a computer of some sort, a copper phone line, and a modem (a technology that had been around since the 1920s). One of the cheapest modems then was the CompuCom SpeedModem Champ, which retailed at $169—equivalent to ...
The early 2000s were a hard time for internet companies; the dot-com bubble burst peaked during a period covering late 2001 and early 2002 and saw internet-based companies lose up to 75% of their value. Despite AOL continually pushing new products over the years, in 2005, Google—the new king of the internet hill—announced plans to buy a stake in AO...
AOL had a long and tortuous journey, from its humble beginnings in a time when no one had ever seen a web browser to becoming synonymous with the web. But then, it also had a massive fall—from being a $350 billion technology empire to becoming a bargain-basement buy-one-get-one-free company in the private equity discount bin. The company's new owne...
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4 days ago · Several companies in its history have owned AOL, most recently being acquired by Apollo Global Management from Verizon in a deal said to be worth $5 billion. Advertising and sponsored content derive revenue for the company.
May 25, 2020 · 2006: America Online drops its old name to officially become AOL and no longer charges for email services. The company moves its headquarters from Dulles, Va. to Manhattan.
- Hannah Kramer
Jan 9, 2015 · In 2008 the headlines asked “ Who Uses AOL and Why? ”, while six years later the headlines exclaimed “ AOL is still the weirdest successful tech company in America ” and rumours about a...
- Gordon Fletcher
AOL Inc. (AOL) is a global Web services company with a range of brands and offerings and a global audience. The Company's business spans online content, products and services, which it...
May 22, 2015 · I t was May 24, 1985 — 30 years ago this weekend — that the company now called AOL first came into existence. In honor of that anniversary, which comes just after the oft-derided company...
