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AOL predates the modern commercial internet. Heck, the first HTTP spec came out 8 or so years after the company started and in the same year they named themselves America Online. Picking on them for not grokking the internet is a bit facile for my liking.


I'm not picking on them; I'm saying their approach to the Internet was similar to Apple's, and the antithesis of Google's.

Also, while they may have predated the web (not Internet), they still acted in direct opposition to it.


They did predate the modern commercial internet. Commercial ISPs didn't appear till the late 80s (at best) and AOL started in ~81. In that context they're a weak example to cite.


Did you a thallus create an account just to respond to me? I didn't think our exchange was so contentious as to merit a new account.




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