|
May 25
2010
|
 |
This week marks the 25th anniversary of America Online, the company that once upon a time flooded the world with free disks, in order to get people to sign up. At one point, during the early years of the Web, a few misguided pundits believed that AOL would eventually kill the Internet itself. It was that popular. Of course, being a juggernaut in the early 1990s meant having half a million users. The company grew from one million users in 1995 to five million in 1996. That pattern continued until 2002, when the service hit 26.7 million users in the US alone.
Celebrating the bumpy ride of America Online's first quarter century of existence.
