AOL was one of the biggest web services and webhosts in the 1990s and early 2000s. It even acquired Time Warner before breaking up. Warner later broke up with Time and perhaps Warner could sell DC (and Warner Brothers Interactive) to Time Inc should its merger with AT&T not occur at all. These days, AOL’s just one of the many Oath Inc brands along with The Huffington Post.
Oath Inc is one such company that practically saved AOL from oblivion but AOL’s not the same as it was in the 1990s. One could email through America Online before. One could make a website on AOL but now one could do the same with Weebly, WordPress, Wix and Typepad. Though one could find archived homepages at Archive.org and the like, America Online’s now just a pale shadow of its 90s self.
One could suggest that the biggest culprits to AOL’s downfall is Google’s rise. Google has risen so much it practically developed its own web browser and bought Blogspot and YouTube. AOL’s still around but not when Google’s the more accessible of the four (MSN and Yahoo included, Philippines’s Yehey is dead).
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