No more AOL!

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In AOL Time Warner's name. Possibly.

http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/09/17/aol/index.html

What's the most ridiculous example of how technical companies' worth got inflated out of measure in the end days of the twentieth century?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 September 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

My boss was, he says, offered £1,000,000 for a domain name he owns, in the last days of the dotcom boom. The people trying to buy it lost their funding just before going through with the deal.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 18 September 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

― qonnie, Thursday, 18 September 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Sadly this isn't going to help lose the AOL users who plauge the net.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 18 September 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

In 1998, the company I was working for, named after the small town of Baltimore in County Cork, Ireland, ended up buying out the homepage of the city of Baltimore Maryland.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 September 2003 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

that is v. funny.

I like the tuvalu island selling off its .tv domain to make some money.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 18 September 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I like that they used the money first for electricity generators and UN membership fees.

Though this interview seems to suggest that the guy administering it may have spent the rest on crack.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 September 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't the country that had .go do this as well?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 18 September 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

.to - Tonga

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 September 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

twenty-two years pass...

New cemetery plot in the Bending Spoons graveyard: AOL
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/internet-pioneer-aol-to-be-acquired-by-tech-company-bending-spoons-8b0200ba

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 29 October 2025 23:21 (seven months ago)

the bushes & hedges are still full of those stupid, unwanted CD-Roms they mailed out thirty years ago

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 29 October 2025 23:33 (seven months ago)

People seem to think that doing that will keep the birds away
https://www.instructables.com/Bird-Scarer-from-old-CDs/

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 29 October 2025 23:37 (seven months ago)

I read this is NO MORE AIOLI

― This dark glowing bohemian coffeehouse (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 29 October 2025 23:56 (seven months ago)

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