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AOL's History

 
By Essence · Updated October 29, 2020
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It has been more than a decade since America Online dominated headlines as the future of media. Oh how times have changed! AOL rose from a company that originally made video games to a paper-behemoth that managed to purchase Time Warner in 2001. After a long series of disappointments AOL announced on Thursday that it would be separating from Time Warner.


Check out this slideshow by HuffPost’s Cara Parks on the history of AOL.