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>I think it was 1995 when WOW!, which was a subsidiary of CompuServe, offered unlimited hours for $15/month. AOL followed shortly thereafter. I thought AOL was
by TMWNN 3y ago
>I think it was 1995 when WOW!, which was a subsidiary of CompuServe, offered unlimited hours for $15/month. AOL followed shortly thereafter.
I thought AOL was the first to offer unlimited hours for a fixed fee, with everyone else imitating it. Am I mistaken?
- MrFoof 3y agoWOW! first. I know because we had it, and for that reason alone. Before WOW! we would do the X hour free trials of ISPs and that's all the internet we had. AOL followed less than a year later, and we switched to AOL only then because of AIM and their walled garden (talking pre-Netscape) was better. WOW! was fairly poorly advertised. We originally got it via a free CD at a store (Barnes and Noble or Office Max?), and they started doing TV advertisements a few months later. Though almost immediately thereafter AOL started their giant Unlimited Hours advertising blitz. Marketing truly won in that scenario. CompuServe had a shot, but no one knew about WOW! so it died in obscurity and under the weight of AOL's genuinely gargantuan marketing efforts.