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

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AOL had the derogatory or pejorative name of training wheels for the internet. It's not till the early 90s when they kind of tie themselves to Microsoft and Windows that they sort of leap to the head of the pack. There's a whole pack here. And what they're chasing is the idea of online, but it's, they're so soon and so early that, that they have to wait for the world to catch up to them.

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