The Sinking Ship that is AOL

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday October 15, 2002 @03:34AM from the bailing-out-the-titanic-with-a-teaspon dept.

EyesWideOpen writes "This article at Salon discusses the ways in which AOL is trying to stay afloat, with the release of version 8.0 of it's software, in a time when AOL (which recently merged with Time Warner) has had a string of bad press -- falling stock prices, SEC investigation, etc. -- attached to it's name. One of my favorite quotes from the article says of AOL: ''It was never really an Internet company. AOL was based on the idea that people needed to live in a halfway house while they became accustomed to the Net.'...If folks can get a better, faster, cheaper online experience by ditching AOL, they'll do it in a heartbeat.'"

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Earthlink == Church of $cientology by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-15 06:00 · Score: -1, Flamebait

That said, I've had excellent experience dialing up to EarthLink in almost every (US) location I've ever been to, and I can almost always get a line by the 2nd call, while my brother across the room tries to dial the local AOL number for half an hour.
Hope you are comfortable with 10% of the money you pay Earthlink going to the Church of Scientology. Yes, the same bunch who have basically declared war on the Internet and got this informational site booted off of Google. Thought you would like to know...