Even with the AOL walled garden, you could open another browser and use that to access the web. Man, so many people didn't know that. They'd just use the AOL icon which loaded the shitty AOL browser and restricted them to just AOL stuff. Come to think of it, I probably shouldn't have told those people how to actually access the rest of the 'net... Then again, you have "Eternal September" which is when the internet died - it was when AOL gave their members access to Usenet. Suddenly, there were millions of stupid people using our newsgroups. It was fucking terrible. Oh, man, was that fucking terrible. That was like 1993 or something? I'd have to look... Fuck it... Yeah, 1993... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September Man, that pissed me off so much back in the day. Millions of stupid people who had no idea how to behave online just inundated us. There were so many of them that voices of reason were drowned out. It has been like that ever since. The smart and the reasonable have just a few enclaves online (and no, Poal is not one of them). Anyhow, if you're Master of the Universe, you've got some shit to do. There's so much wrong that needs fixing. You're gonna be pretty fucking busy. Hell, if you're going to be master of the universe then you probably also need to give up drugs/alcohol/sex so that you can concentrate on fixing this fucked up shit. And, yeah... AOL keeping them on their AOL shittiness was not a bad thing. It was bad if you wanted to get your site included with them, but yeah... Maybe we need something like that again? It's probably too late to do anything now.