Submitted by US media giant Time Warner has said it anticipates spinning off one or more parts of AOL as advertising sales decline at the internet business. The announcement came after Time Warner posted stronger-than-expected profits and reaffirmed its full-year forecast. Net profits for the first quarter came in at USD 661m (GBP 448.8m), a fall of 14% from the USD 771m reported a year earlier. Revenue at the company, which owns Time magazine and the CNN and HBO television networks, fell by 7% to USD 6.9bn.
(You see a dead horse infront of you)
/loot
/kick
Just put a bullet in AOL and be done with it. it’s been a long time comming….
Though it hasn’t been all bad. After all, if it wasn’t for the frustration AOL 4.0 caused me I would never have come up with the name “poundsmack.”
:Lore:(After trying to come up with a screen name that wasn’t taken for the better part of 2 hours I became frustrated and took out my agression on my CRT monitor.The resulting sounds were combined to become my screen name and forever remind me of my struggle with the machine)…
AOL are still around? God I almost forgot the still existed.
Don’t we all have fond memories of these jokers who use to charge us even after cancellation? Ahh, those were the days.
I thouht it was AOL that bought Time Warner. Recall, they were the company that had the cash, and now are being spun off of “AOL Time-Warner”.
At the time I was expecting we would soon see the AOL-Time-Warner-Microsoft-GE-GM-Exxon-McDonalds company that would rule us all, or just enslave us all. You know when a business sells off like this, it always means they are taking out the garbage, and AOL certainly was garbage (and they certainly filled OUR garbage with their free floppy disks).
The only downside is that it would make the newsgroup alt.aol-sucks obsolete.
Is there anything left of AOL besides AIM?
Winamp
engadget.com
autoblog.com
(others)
I don’t know if engadget and so on are affiliated with AOL but i do know if i scroll to the bottom of their home page it appears to be part of AOL news or in some way related.
Netscape, FWIW
obviously it’s not worth much.
I wonder if he just took the money and ran after the first year. I can’t say that I’ve seen him in a photo or press conference video since Time-Warner was having trouble making ends meet after the acquisition.
I find it amusing that they always promised grandiose things of their Mac software and then, procrastinated on delivering it. They just finally released AIM for Mac OS X, though AIM version 4.7 worked quite well.
The Yahoo! Messenger people aren’t too far ahead of them. The version 3.0 beta is in its 4th year with 2 public builds each of the first three years and 1 so far in 2009, with an emergency Leopard compatibility build.
Ahh I remember clicking AOL shortcuts on my Windows 95 computer 10/11 years ago but I didn’t do anything with them…I am not sure if they came preinstalled with Windows or if they were put there by the OEM.
Depends. A lot of OEMs did put them there, but remember the “Online Services” folder in the start menu that Windows 95 came pre-installed with? There were AOL links there too, in addition to other links for other services.
Ahh yes, yes! That is it. That’s what I was talking about. Thanks for that.