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The Case for an AOL Renaissance

• xsmasher 17y ago
  Seems unlikely. Kudos to AOL for managing the transition from closed network to dial-up internet service; after that they went off the rails. The transition from dial-up to broadband rendered them irrelevant, except as an also-ran Yahoo style portal. If AOL came to you today with their pitch, what would it be? Would you go for it?
  • zandorg 17y ago
    Irrelevant? In the 1990s, AOL bought loads of great Web companies! They only went wrong by doing the merger with Time Warner.
    • elblanco 17y ago
      True, but they never worked out a way to monetize what those companies were making -- e.g. mp3 playback software.