Pence Used Personal Email for Official Business as Governor
As governor of Indiana, now-VP Mike Pence "routinely" used his personal AOL email account to conduct public business, reports the Indianapolis Star , which obtained 29 pages of Pence emails via a...
View ArticleInternet Pokes Fun at Name for Combined AOL-Yahoo
If you merge the letters from AOL and Yahoo, take a few away, and add a "t," you have Oath, which is what Verizon is planning to call a new entity combining the two companies after its acquisition of...
View ArticleAIM to Set Away Message ... Permanently
AOL announced Friday it will be shutting down its trailblazing instant messaging service AIM on Dec. 15, the Verge reports. According to TechCrunch , AOL Instant Messenger became its own standalone app...
View ArticleFor 2 Internet Giants of Old, Another Change of Hands
AOL and Yahoo are being sold again, this time to a private equity firm. Verizon will sell Verizon Media, which consists of the pioneering tech platforms, to Apollo Global Management in a $5 billion...
View ArticleThe 'You've Got Mail' Guy Has Died at Age 74
The voice that people of a certain age heard every time they logged on to AOL to find that they had new email is gone. Elwood Edwards, who was paid $200 to record the iconic "You've got mail" line...
View ArticleA Fixture of the Early Internet Age Is Going Away
The first part of the news might surprise people: Dial-up AOL still exists. The second part might prompt a wave of nostalgia: It's finally going away for good. The company, which is now part of Yahoo,...
View ArticleRIP, AOL Dial-Up
You don't have mail: As promised , that bastion of 1990s internet dial-up, America Online, is officially America Offline. As NBC News reports, the plug is being pulled on AOL's dial-up service—which...
View ArticleBuyer Promises New Life for 'Iconic' AOL
AOL, the iconic internet brand that helped define the early online era, is changing hands once again. The company is being acquired by Bending Spoons, a Milan-based tech firm with a policy of never...
View ArticleCollector of Legacy Internet Brands Heads for an IPO
Once the poster child of the dot-com boom, AOL is now part of an Italian stockpiler of once-shiny internet names that's heading to Wall Street. Milan-based Bending Spoons, which bought what's left of...
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