said by Matt:For all the fun technical people poke at AOL, they accomplished two things we should ALL be thankful for:
1) Unlimited Internet Connectivity for a fair price: $29.99 for unlimited dial-up forced other ISPs to match it, even though AOL didn't provide unfettered internet access until the end of their life.
2) It brought the masses to the internet. Once AOL started accepting email from the internet and allowing internet access to more than their walled garden, it made people a LOT more comfortable outside of AOL.
AOL wasn't the first to do unlimited dial-up. The first company to do it was a company called "WOW" That was the first company to do unlimited then aol started doing unlimited dial-up. It was a national ISP and part of compu-serve..
