I have a special place in my heart for America Online. My history with them dates back to when they were a startup and weren’t even called AOL: they were calling Quantum Computer (believe it or not!) and I met with Steve Case personally to figure out their relationship with my employer, Apple. I hadn’t thought of them in years until I just saw this graph, which really surprises me. I can’t imagine any reason to go to aol.com, but apparently, it’s still a big deal.
I know AOL as a business relationship, as an active user, and, most importantly, as a client of Prophet.net. AOL very much made Prophet the success that it became, because they were far and away our biggest customer and gave us a ton of money for what today would be given away for free.
For you old timers out there, here are some sounds I bet you don’t miss:
