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Elwood Edwards, the voice of AOL’s “You’ve Got Mail” greeting, has died at age 74 following a long illness, according to local Ohio news station WKYC. “He worked at 3News for many years as graphics guru, camera operator, and general jack-of-all-trades,… Continue reading Elwood Edwards, Voice of AOL’s ‘You’ve Got Mail,’ Dies At 74
DiscMaster lets you search and view millions of old files from the early days of the internet. Continue reading New Tool Lets You Search Tons of Old CDs and Floppy Disks for Lost Media
Born of nostalgia and the pandemic, the project seeks to recreate an ersatz past. Continue reading RE-AOL Is a Faithful Recreation of AOL 3.0
A new article at ZDNet argues that “The 1990s had a word for being trapped inside a manipulative notion of human contact: AOL.”
“Facebook and its ilk are the rebirth of that limited vision.”
Once upon a time, roughly thirty years ago, there was a com… Continue reading Is Facebook the AOL of 2021?
Amid the hodgepodge of Verizon Media assets that Apollo Global Management is buying from Verizon — Yahoo Finance, TechCrunch, advertising technology, Yahoo Fantasy — there’s one cash flow stream that will not die: AOL. From a report: The famed intern… Continue reading About 1.5 Million People Still Pay for AOL
Verizon announced today that it will sell AOL and Yahoo to Global Management for $5 billion. The resulting company will be called Yahoo.
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The body of a man found shot inside a burned out vehicle in Canada three years ago has been identified as that of Davis Wolfgang Hawke, a prolific spammer and neo-Nazi who led a failed anti-government march on Washington, D.C. in 1999, according to news reports. Continue reading Body Found in Canada Identified as Neo-Nazi Spam King
Couchbase. the Santa Clara-based company behind the eponymous NoSQL cloud database service, today announced that it has raised a $105 million all-equity Series G round “to expand product development and global go-to-market capabilities.” The oversubscribed round was led by GPI Capital, with participation from existing investors Accel, Sorenson Capital, North Bridge Venture Partners, Glynn Capital, […] Continue reading Couchbase raises $105M Series G funding round
Add another chapter to your internet revisionist history books: AOL held talks to buy both Facebook and YouTube in 2006 and considered taking a large minority stake in Tencent in 2004. From a report: Obviously none of this happened — and the board of … Continue reading AOL Held Talks To Buy YouTube, Facebook in 2006, Ex-CEO Reveals
Verizon announced today that it will write down $4.6 billion associated with its acquisitions of AOL and Yahoo.
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