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Re:AOL 3.0 reverse engineered by TedDoesntTalk on Sunday June 05, 2022 @03:17PM (#31633984)
> It wasn't really a walled garden, though

It effectively was for millions of users who did not venture outside the AOL client.

Re:AOL 3.0 reverse engineered by hydr0 on Sunday June 05, 2022 @10:16PM (#31636743)
fwiw...AOL also introduced a web browser within their client and provided its users with 2mb of web hosting space. I hosted a bunch of my first web sites using it and learned about FTP.
Re:AOL 3.0 reverse engineered by TedDoesntTalk on Monday June 06, 2022 @09:57AM (#31640534)
That’s a great story to hear and lessons my negative views of AOL. Thanks for sharing it!