There were full replacements for Compuserve, Prodigy, The Well, TheGlobe, AOL, geocities, friendster, myspace and yes facebook too. They're no Google. They are a walled garden like AOL but won't be around as long as AOL, which, unbelieveably is still kicking -> http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=aol&ql=1 after their $165 billion dollar deal -> http://fortune.com/2015/01/10/15-years-later-lessons-from-th...