12. (Ch 3.2) The Rise of AOL
Internet History Podcast
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The Rise of the Internet
AOL, CompuServe and Prodigy were all what the industry likes to call walled gardens. They provided their users with proprietary tools and pre-packaged content developed by the services themselves or their media partners. Little of what online services did interacted with the larger internet on the whole.
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