Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B

Re:Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B by fallous on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @08:04AM (#9531069)

I too worked for AOL at one time, after they bought Netscape who happened to be my employer at the time. I very quickly took a severance option they were offering. There were also plenty of developers that fell under the iPlanet umbrella working for Sun/Netscape that later felt the axe.

Don't think that everyone who worked at AOL were a bunch of "you've got mail!" chatroom admins.

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Re:Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B by toxican on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @08:55AM (#9531342)

>Don't think that everyone who worked at AOL were a bunch of "you've got mail!" chatroom admins.

Who in this community would think that??

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Re:Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B by dboreham on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @12:05PM (#9532709)

otoh I don't think anyone who came to AOL that way would say "I worked for AOL". I'd say I worked for the part of AOL that used to be Netscape, or at least "AOL West". I seem to recall saying something like "I work for Sun but my paycheck comes from AOL, for tax reasons...".

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Re:Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B by diggum on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @05:33PM (#9535069)

AOL was briefly on my paystubs for awhile as well. My first tech job was at Sprynet in the mid 90's, when it was first owned by Compuserve, then Worldcom, then AOL, then Mindspring (when I finally got out,) and shortly after, Earthlink.

Wow, I just discovered Wikipedia has no page for Sprynet. Now just who do I contact about getting that edited?

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Re:Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @05:36PM (#9535087)

Small company pages are commonly deleted from Wikipedia, for having no links.

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