Why did anyone ever pay for AOL?

Ahhh, how soon we forget.

Before Netscape brought us the WWW, there were few options to get "online."
Online was either BBS's, or services like Compuserve, or GEnie. Then came
along AOL, and with their marketing blitz took over the "online" world. That
was until the WWW was unleashed via Netscape.

There was a point when the easiest way to get "online" was to subscribe to
AOL. Those days are LONG gone, so I wonder why anyone still pays for AOL.

--Mike


"BAR" wrote in message
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Why did anyone ever pay for AOL?

Mike wrote:
Do people still pay for AOL?

--Mike

"Tim" wrote in message
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HA! AOL drops Usnet, photo hosting, and now MAaffee....


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