Interesting that it didn't get proper web connectivity until 1995 - they may even have been behind compuserve on that! Also I love how this write-up ends at 19

Interesting that it didn't get proper web connectivity until 1995 - they may even have been behind compuserve on that! Also I love how this write-up ends at 1998. Yet here we are 25 years later https://www.aol.com https://www.aol.com still exists, you can still sign up for an email address, though at this point it is more or less just a brand that's been passed around between owners quite a bit. The last contact I had with the org was in the mid 00s when I knew some people who worked in their London office, producing portal content. It was weird even then, in 2005, because from the outside, Aol had been dead for years... I guess a bit like the time I met some people from Myspace in a bar in London in about 2010 (IIRC). "We work at Myspace" and when they saw everyone look bemused "yeah, we know!"