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On 08/06/2010 01:21 AM, DanS wrote:
>>
>> Just goes to show that if you have enough advertising
>> money, you can sell anything. Remember how many idiots
>> bought AOL?
>
> If it wasn't for those 'idiots', the internet wouldn't be what
> it is today.....
>
> Before AOL, it was 1200 baud BBS....(OK, maybe 9600)
>
> AOL marketing is what opened up the entire online world to
> America.
>
> It was friggin' genius........pump out disk's and CD's millions
> at a time making them cost very little per unit, then dump them
> off at every POS location in the country and have them labelled
> free....as well as a mailing campaign.
>
> The shear numbers of AOL subscribers dwarfed any other single
> online service, like Compuserve......
>
> And AOL made a killing right up until the merger with T/W.
>
> That being said, that doesn't mean they were the best provider,
> but, I really don't think we'd be where we are today w/AOL.
>
> ......(or Compuserve if that would have taken off and been the
> leader, or maybe even some other company....but it was in fact
> AOL.)
In the USA, yes. In Europe, AOL was only successful in Germany and
England. I don't think AOL had anything to do with the increased speed.
They died when broadband hit the scene and people realized how fucked up
AOL was.
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>>
>> Just goes to show that if you have enough advertising
>> money, you can sell anything. Remember how many idiots
>> bought AOL?
>
> If it wasn't for those 'idiots', the internet wouldn't be what
> it is today.....
>
> Before AOL, it was 1200 baud BBS....(OK, maybe 9600)
>
> AOL marketing is what opened up the entire online world to
> America.
>
> It was friggin' genius........pump out disk's and CD's millions
> at a time making them cost very little per unit, then dump them
> off at every POS location in the country and have them labelled
> free....as well as a mailing campaign.
>
> The shear numbers of AOL subscribers dwarfed any other single
> online service, like Compuserve......
>
> And AOL made a killing right up until the merger with T/W.
>
> That being said, that doesn't mean they were the best provider,
> but, I really don't think we'd be where we are today w/AOL.
>
> ......(or Compuserve if that would have taken off and been the
> leader, or maybe even some other company....but it was in fact
> AOL.)
In the USA, yes. In Europe, AOL was only successful in Germany and
England. I don't think AOL had anything to do with the increased speed.
They died when broadband hit the scene and people realized how fucked up
AOL was.
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