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$200 Billion To IrrelevantWhat Happened To AOL?
Do you remember a company called AOL? If you were born after 2000, you may not even be familiar with this company, but their contribution to the tech world was massive. They were the ones that popularized the internet across America by essentially giving everyone free trials to connect to the internet with their famous disks. But, over time, they slowly fell behind. They went from being the ones pioneering internet applications to being an internet infrastructure company, and this trend went into overdrive with their controversial $350 billion merger with Timer Warner Cable. Since then, AOL has been largely forgotten about and replaced by upandcoming competitors like Google, Facebook, and modern ISPs. Things would get so bad that AOL would end up posting the worst corporate loss in history of $98.7 billion before getting acquired by Verizon for just $4.4 billion. This video explains the rise and fall of AOL and how an internet pioneer ended up losing it all.
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By Logically Answered$200 Billion To IrrelevantWhat Happened To AOL?
Do you remember a company called AOL? If you were born after 2000, you may not even be familiar with this company, but their contribution to the tech world was massive. They were the ones that popularized the internet across America by essentially giving everyone free trials to connect to the internet with their famous disks. But, over time, they slowly fell behind. They went from being the ones pioneering internet applications to being an internet infrastructure company, and this trend went into overdrive with their controversial $350 billion merger with Timer Warner Cable. Since then, AOL has been largely forgotten about and replaced by upandcoming competitors like Google, Facebook, and modern ISPs. Things would get so bad that AOL would end up posting the worst corporate loss in history of $98.7 billion before getting acquired by Verizon for just $4.4 billion. This video explains the rise and fall of AOL and how an internet pioneer ended up losing it all.
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