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Tech Time Warp of the Week: America Online, 1995
By the early 2000s, the world wide web had sounded the death knell for the world's "online services" -- corporate-controlled creations like America Online and CompuServe that brought computer users online well before the web was created. But there was a brief time when these services were king -- and a company like AOL was powerful enough to purchase a giant like Time Warner for $164 billion.
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I love how they feature the internet as another reason to use that giant dust collecting thing back in the day.