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Episode 44: AOL - Time Warner (with the Internet History Podcast)

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AOL Time Warner Is About to Be Broken Up

Steve Case vowed that one day AOL Time Warner would have $100 billion in revenue and be the world's first trillion dollar market cap company. On four days later, the Dow Jones industrial average peaks at a level that it would not return to for more than six years. The bubble bursts. And we'll get into why the culturally, why the acquisition was a disaster.

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