My recollection is that the AOL event you reference was only making usenet accessible - a point that makes good sense in the context of the eternal September.

My recollection is that the AOL event you reference was only making usenet accessible - a point that makes good sense in the context of the eternal September. But when talking about the WWW, that's a very different story. I think that AOL didn't incorporate a web browser until quite some time after that.