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They might not have been able to keep people there forever, sure. But their walled garden was “the internet” to a major chunk of people in the US for quite a lo
by umanwizard 7y ago
They might not have been able to keep people there forever, sure. But their walled garden was “the internet” to a major chunk of people in the US for quite a long time.
Remember when TV commercials would tell you a company’s AOL keyword?
- kortilla 7y agoYeah, that was around the time the internet wasn’t even relevant to the majority of the first world population. Trying to make comparisons to how it might look today is pointless. At AOLs peak, it had about 35 million subscribers. Comcast alone has nearly that many.
- dehrmann 7y agoOr when people would tell you their ICANN domain?