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Re:Facebook Is Kinda OK but Largely Overrated : Matt's Homepage by pg on Saturday October 06, 2007 @07:20PM (#64262)
I agree with Marc. What made the web win was that random people could make web sites. So there started to be way more stuff on the web than on AOL. By late 1995, the main reason people were signing up for AOL was to get access to the web.
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Re:Facebook Is Kinda OK but Largely Overrated : Matt's Homepage by mattmaroon on Saturday October 06, 2007 @09:24PM (#64300)
Right. Which didn't ruin AOL (the company) it made it better. What ruined AOL was the shift away from them to broadband.
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Re:Facebook Is Kinda OK but Largely Overrated : Matt's Homepage by pg on Sunday October 07, 2007 @12:23PM (#64456)
He's talking about an earlier and much more ambitious AOL than you are. AOL once hoped to be what later turned out to be the web. But because they weren't open enough, the web grew faster, and they became merely an on-ramp for it.

(Then after a few years of being a quite prosperous on-ramp, they lost even that, which is the vanquishing you're thinking of.)

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Re:Facebook Is Kinda OK but Largely Overrated : Matt's Homepage by mattmaroon on Sunday October 07, 2007 @02:36PM (#64485)
Aha. Guess I'm too young to have known that.
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