From the article, emphasis mine: > There was much debate about what platform to build on. Would we be on the open web or a walled garden? There was no guarante

From the article, emphasis mine: > There was much debate about what platform to build on. Would we be on the open web or a walled garden? There was no guarantee that the web was going to win over these big companies. In fact, a lot of them, like The New York Times, started on AOL. But Steve Newhouse [chairman of Advance Publications, parent of Condé Nast] went with the open world. We started on the web. Some things never change.