About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 66. Chapters: AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, Winamp, Netscape, CompuServe, Nullsoft, List of acquisitions by AOL, Ficlets, The Huffington Post, Ted Leonsis, Steve Case, Cookie Jar TV, EWorld, Jonathan Miller, AOL search data scandal, Jean Case, TechCrunch, AOL Radio, Don't Copy That Floppy, Neverwinter Nights, ADTECH, PointCast, SHOUTcast, Partners & Spade, Randall Boe, AOL Community Leader Program, Michael Jones, OSCAR protocol, Jim Kimsey, AOL Explorer, Buy.at, TOC protocol, AOL Mail, Propeller.com, Manoel Amorim, Politics Daily, Nullsoft Streaming Video, Moviefone, Xdrive, TOC2 protocol, Mirabilis, AOL OpenRide, AOLserver, AOL Broadband, Tim Armstrong, Elwood Edwards, Tracy Reed, Noisecreep, About.me, Ultravox, Marc Seriff, Tatiana Platt, AOL Toolbar, Inside-AOL.com, Radio KOL, 3char, Barry Appelman, FanHouse, AOL Desktop, AOLpress, ZoeOnAOL, Advertising.com, ComicsAlliance, Quigo, ZolaOnAOL, Ccoms, MailBlocks, BookLink, Tacoda, PopEater, Third Screen Media, Rainman, AOL Hometown. Excerpt: AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL, stylized as "Aol.," and previously known as America Online) is an American global Internet services and media company. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York. Founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions of its services. AOL is best known for its online software suite, also called AOL, that allowed customers to access the world's largest "walled garden" online community and eventually reach out to the Internet as a whole. At its prime, AOL's membership was over 30 million members worldwide, most of whom accessed the AOL service through the AOL software suite. In 2000 AOL and Time Warner merged under the name AOL Time Warner. The merger was not fruitful and on May 28, 2009, AOL announced that it would s...