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  1. William F. von Meister (February 21, 1942 – May 18, 1995) was an American entrepreneur who founded and participated in a number of startup ventures in the Washington, D.C., area. These included The Source, an early online service and CompuServe competitor, and Control Video Corporation, a predecessor to AOL.

  2. Feb 28, 2023 · William Von Meister was an innovative entrepreneur who played a significant role in pioneering the early online services of the 1980s. He was born in New York City on February 21, 1942, into a noble German family that had ties to Kaiser Wilhelm II.

  3. The Source. The first purely consumer on-line service in the United States was The Source. It was founded in 1978 by William von Meister, a local telecommunications entrepreneur who envisioned a ‘home information utility’ that would do for computers what AT&T did for telephones.

  4. Jul 17, 2019 · Von Meister and two engineers devised an information network based on “piggybacking” digital data on FM radio broadcasts using a single sideband. The system, which von Meister named Infocast, could broadcast data up to the limit of an FM broadcast (about 75 miles).

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  5. Apr 25, 2014 · That Man Is William von Meister. And he is the subject of this episode. I’ve enjoyed all of the episodes we’ve done so far, but I have to say this has been the most fun. It’s exciting to shed some light on a bit of history that I think has been criminally overlooked.

  6. Sep 15, 2014 · AOL, for example, was started by William von Meister, a flamboyant serial entrepreneur who loved to launch companies and see where they landed.

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  8. Book Five. Shakespeare motif. Characters. Origins. Genre. Legacy. References. External links. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship ( German: Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre) is the second novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published in 1795–96. Plot. The novel is in eight books. The eponymous hero undergoes a journey of self-realization.

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