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It's sort of crazy to think, AOL was once one of the worlds most valuable companies.

AOL is essentially the cheap whore of the tech industry. It's price dropping as it ages.

It's sort of crazy to think, AOL was once one of the worlds most valuable companies. AOL is essentially the cheap whore of the tech industry. It's price dropping as it ages.
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Correct, it has 30M users a day. That data and advertising base is what they are looking to buy.

Once upon a time it made garbage copies of things to keep users locked into it. But that was long ago in the walled garden days of the internet.

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I had a map of compuserve on my wall in my first office. Basically the menu flowchart and rabbit holes each lead to.

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Compuserve brings back memories. I also used one called Delphi and there was IBM's Prodigy.

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I had a Delphi account but never used it, got it for work for some reason at my first job.