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unusual facts about America Online, Inc



Babylon 5's use of the Internet

In September 1995 they hired a fan, Troy Rutter, to take over the site and move it not only to its own domain name at www.babylon5.com, but also to oversee the "Keyword B5" area on America Online.

Connect Business Information Network

Use grew rapidly during the first years, but there was significant competition from America Online when that service launched a year later on the Macintosh platform.

Island of Kesmai

It was based on a slightly stripped down version of Island of Kesmai with 2D sprites replacing IoK's roguelike pseudo-graphics, and was available for play at America Online and GameStorm.

Jim Geringer

In 1997, Governor Geringer called for a boycott of America Online after Sondra London posted a series of murder confessions sent to her from "Happy Face Killer" Keith Jesperson, protesting that he found the items to be offensive.

Lady Kinvara Balfour

In August 2008 DailyCandy.com was sold to Comcast for a reported US$125 million by its then owner media-mogul Robert Pittman an American entrepreneur and the founder of MTV and ex-COO of America Online, Inc and AOL Time Warner.

NeoEdge Networks

NeoEdge was originally founded in 2002 by Steven Woods, Jeromy Carriere, Kelly Slough, Dave Simons, and Michael Babiak, former Netscape and America Online employees, under the name "Kinitos".

Ogden Edsl

Clips of Ogden Edsl songs, namely "Dead Puppies", frequently circulated amongst AOL users as chatroom-playable .wav files in the mid and late 1990s.

Pat Bolland

He also created and hosted Investors On-Line, a nationally syndicated TV show; hosted Canada's Business Report, a daily radio show; and wrote an investment column for America Online.

PlayMaker Football

PlayMaker Football spawned a small but dedicated community of players on online providers such as America Online and CompuServe.

The Shadow of Yserbius

The Shadow of Yserbius, along with its successors, remained online until 1996, when America Online purchased the rights from then-owner AT&T for an undisclosed price (rumored to be $40 million).

Zeran v. America Online, Inc.

On April 25, 1995, six days after the Oklahoma City bombing, a message was anonymously posted on America Online’s (AOL) "Michigan Military Movement" bulletin board advertising items with slogans glorifying the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.


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