actor90
Never a dull moment
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join:2003-07-21
L.E.H.T., NJ
 ·Comcast
| And so the end is near....
I personally hope yahoo gets control of the aol brand and merges it in with yahoo. Then they can drop the aol name all together, move the sheep off the horribly buggy add ridden AIM to yahoo messenger, and transition aol e-mail to the yahoo mail banner. The sites aol have that have some popularity like TMZ.com and winamp.com can be moved under the yahoo brand, and the less popular sites can be killed off. Hopefully winamp will survive, I use it more then any other program to listen to my mp3's.
As for the dial up business, there will always be a need for it for back up purposes. If they sell to Earthlink, they should stream line the dial up to no thrills, and lower the price.
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v35_pilot
Whoops, there goes another AMU
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join:2005-12-12
Fayetteville, NY | End of an era
The end of an era. Another chapter closes in this journey we call life.
Remember the days when AOL was the stock to own? |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
| reply to actor90
Re: And so the end is near....
I think the chances of Yahoo! buying AOL just took a nosedive in the past few days, thanks to corporate politics... My guess is that if anyone's going to buy the non-dialup portion of AOL, it'll be Microsoft, who would probably be better off dumping the moribund MSN brands in favor of the better-known AOL (at least in the US, worldwide could be different) |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA | Yahoo? AOL?
Yahol? 
AFT AOL bites the dust, ya know? |
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S_engineer
join:2007-05-16
Chicago, IL
·Comcast
| AOL...
should be a case study on what not to do with a business. They had the money to expand their interests and didn't. They stuck with the same game that was being played in 1998. How sad......well not really. I personally, am not sad to see them go. They were and interseting chapter in the fledgling WWW. Now they should die gracefully instead of being paraded arould as some kind of nostolgic entity.
They remind me of the Rolling Stones...everytime I hear they're coming out with another tour, I think "wow, are they still alive?"
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Corehhi
join:2002-01-28
Bluffton, SC | AOL had no way to compete against local cable companies for broadband. That's what killed them. |
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axus
join:2001-06-18
Washington, DC | reply to v35_pilot
Re: End of an era
I got the AOL 1.0 disks so I could play my first on-line game ;p Of course it wanted me to update to 2.0 as soon as I connected. I was so confused when I saw people typing emoticons, it took a day before someone explained that it was a smiley. |
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Smith6612
Premium
join:2008-02-01
united state | reply to Corehhi
Re: AOL...
And DSL as well. I used to have AOL before I went with Verizon. |
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cableties
Premium
join:2005-01-27
 ·Verizon FIOS
| reply to dadkins
Re: Yahoo? AOL?
said by dadkins  :Yahol? ... ROFL!  |
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telcolackey
The Truth? You can't handle the truth
join:2007-04-06
Death Valley, CA
1 edit | reply to Corehhi
Re: AOL...
said by Corehhi :AOL had no way to compete against local cable companies for broadband. That's what killed them. Why did they need to? Without TW, they were content focused and competed with Yahoo and Google. Perhaps we need a "Search Neutrality" or "Ad Neutrality" or "Portal Neutrality" where the government comes in and only allows 30% market share of any business.
[Edit: Sarcasm tag needed i guess]
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bronxlcsw
join:2005-09-21
Bronx, NY
·Verizon FIOS
·Optimum Online
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| Remember the Move to unlimited 19.99 per month??
My first internet experience was because AOL cleverly went from hourly charges to unlimited all you can surf plan. this was where AOL exploded on the scene. I think at the peak they had what 30 million subscribers and growing then some idiot comes along and invents tis thing called DSL and Cable internet. You would think that AOL with all the MONEY Aol made from stock sales would have allowed them to buy some cable company or even start thier own DSL service. I remember the former CEO of the older ATT Crandell i think was his name, he forsaw the future when he purchased the largest cable operater i think its cox cable? Anyway, he was years ahead of the time. he knew the future was cable, Voip and television. however, i think his move bankrupted ATT and caused it to disolve only to re-emerge again recently from Cingular. AOL had a chance to be a major player in the telecomminucations but blew it. They thought people would be on dial up for years. |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
| reply to telcolackey
Re: AOL...
How would that work? Would people who tried to use Google get redirected to a different search engine after Google reached it's "fair" share? If AOL, Yahoo!, Microsoft MSN Live Windows Search .NET can't compete on the merits of their services, then they deserve to go out of business. |
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supergirl
join:2007-03-20
Pensacola, FL
 ·Cox VOIP
·Skype
·Cox HSI
·AT&T Southeast
·magicjack.com
| reply to telcolackey
Why? People use Google mostly because the others suck. If you suck, the government, who sucks most of the time, well 100% of the time, has no business making everything suck.
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Corydon
Cultivant son jardin
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join:2008-02-18
Denver, CO
clubs:
·Comcast
| reply to v35_pilot
Re: End of an era
I remember being pissed when AOL started distributing its software on CD instead of floppy disk.
The floppy disks at least could be repurposed into something useful. The CDs were totally and completely worthless.
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supergirl
join:2007-03-20
Pensacola, FL | reply to bronxlcsw
Re: Remember the Move to unlimited 19.99 per month??
No, Comcast bought AT&T Cable. Cox is a private company. |
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supergirl
join:2007-03-20
Pensacola, FL
·Cox VOIP
·Skype
·Cox HSI
·AT&T Southeast
·magicjack.com
| reply to Corydon
Re: End of an era
said by Corydon :I remember being pissed when AOL started distributing its software on CD instead of floppy disk. The floppy disks at least could be repurposed into something useful. The CDs were totally and completely worthless. No, those CD cases were great. You could run over them with a car and they wouldn't break. I used to ask everyone I know to drop them off at my house when they got one.
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Saving the world keeps me busy. However, I find Earth very primitive from my home planet of Krypton.
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | reply to supergirl
Re: Remember the Move to unlimited 19.99 per month??
And AT&T Cable was the old MediaOne, which was at one point owned by US West... and I think before that it was Continental Cablevision, maybe? |
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Cheese
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join:2003-10-26
Naples, FL
clubs:
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Re: Yahoo? AOL?
said by dadkins :Yahol? AFT AOL bites the dust, ya know? AOLHOO  |
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NY Tel
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join:2004-04-09
Smithtown, NY
·VOIPo
| reply to v35_pilot
Re: End of an era
said by v35_pilot :The end of an era. Another chapter closes in this journey we call life. Remember the days when AOL was the stock to own? How about Prodigy? In 1994 we got a family account which connected at 9600 baud and the BIG upgrade was when you could finally send e-mails outside of the Prodigy system (which you could not do initially) and when they offered 14,400 as a "speed increase". |
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Richard B
Fur It Up
join:2007-06-22
Portland, OR
·Comcast
| reply to telcolackey
Re: AOL...
said by telcolackey :said by Corehhi :AOL had no way to compete against local cable companies for broadband. That's what killed them. Why did they need to? Without TW, they were content focused and competed with Yahoo and Google. Perhaps we need a "Search Neutrality" or "Ad Neutrality" or "Portal Neutrality" where the government comes in and only allows 30% market share of any business. [Edit: Sarcasm tag needed i guess] The liberal idea of competition comes out of the woodwork. It not if one can enter the market but you have to many customers so it unfair so we need government to do soothing. The problem is this: one should have the right to enter the market (only with their own property IE no line redistribution) but nobody has a right to results. We the individual have the right to choice and not to have the choice made by self appointed leaders. If a large market share goes to Microsoft or Google tough luck. |
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