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> The rein of aol was killed by stagnation and outside innovation, people seeing that there's more and better outside of aol, and the second round will probably
by hobarrera 11y ago
> The rein of aol was killed by stagnation and outside innovation, people seeing that there's more and better outside of aol, and the second round will probably die a similar death.
AOL was also a US-only thing, so when Internet started reaching other countries, they had no adoption.
Heck, living in south america I only even heard about what AOL was less than 8 years ago!
- wolfgke 11y ago> AOL was also a US-only thing, so when Internet started reaching other countries, they had no adoption. AOL was quite popular in the 90s/beginning of the 00s in Germany. What killed AOL there was the emerging availability of fast internet connections (say, DSL and later cable).