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The AOL Roller Coaster

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ups-and-downs dept.

eldavojohn writes "There's a lengthy article at Information Week about AOL's history. A lot of us are familiar with AOL's history but few of us realize that it sits at a crossroads today where it could potentially find its way back into consumer's pockets — something it's tried to do before in a hit-or-miss fashion. From the conclusion of the article, one analyst states: 'Ironically, although you'd think AOL should dump its family mentality in light of its competitors like Yahoo, the key to AOL future branding success vs. Yahoo could be to actually capitalize on its family friendliness alongside targeting the tech-savvy community currently owned by Apple.' AOL has been met with many problems as of late, but can they pull themselves out of the hole this time?"

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  1. As a resident of the Rest Of The World... by OnyxIR · · Score: 3, Funny

    What the hell is AOL?

    No really...

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    1. Re:As a resident of the Rest Of The World... by alzoron · · Score: 3, Funny

      So yeah, it was basically just like MSN.

  2. Re:-1 Flamebait: The solution to pulling out by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

    To the non tech savvy, tech savvy now means "buys gadgets."

    The actual tech savvy, of course, are the people who pick the broken and discarded gadgets from the "tech savvy"'s trash and make new and interesting gadgets from their bits and pieces.

    God I love early adopters.

    KFG

  3. Re:"...the ISP for people who didn't know any bett by WindBourne · · Score: 3, Funny

    Having PCWorld rate the top 25 worst tech products is a lot like Sadaam Husein rating the worst leaders and not even including himself.

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  4. It's the old joke: by blueZ3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mac: For people who don't want to know why their computer works
    Linux: For people who do want to know why their computers works
    DOS: For people who want to know why their computer doesn't work
    Windows: For people who don't want to know why their computer doesn't work

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