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AOL was borgified by Time Warner management post acquisition the same way Boeing was by MD.
by kevin_thibedeau 3y ago
AOL was borgified by Time Warner management post acquisition the same way Boeing was by MD.
- squiffsquiff 3y agoYou make it sound like AOL was cool before the Time-Warner merger and people didn't joke about e.g. the free trial CD's
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoThey were a successful online service before the internet. Yes. They were just as cool as Compuserve and Prodigy.
- lmm 3y agoBy the time of the merger with Time Warner they were a joke among technical people. They were in the same category as Compuserve and Prodigy, but marketed specifically as an "easy" service for less technical users.