roamer1
sticking it out at you
join:2001-03-24
Atlanta, GA
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| Re: AOL? said by jaxdomino  :You are absolutely WRONG! AOL did in fact create a Walled Garden approach and that is why they were originally called an Online Service Provider versus an Internet Service Provider. The reason AOL, C$, P*, Delphi, etc. were classified separately than "true ISPs" of the day such as Earthlink and all the ISPs they bought  was because of the focus on in-house content, not because they didn't allow Internet access at all. I don't remember which one was first, but by late '95 or early '96 all of them provided access to the full Internet one way or another.
-SC (whose first "true" Internet access was via none other than CompuServe)
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