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> The rein of aol was killed by stagnation and outside innovation, people seeing that there's more and better outside of aol, and the second round will probably die a similar death.

AOL was also a US-only thing, so when Internet started reaching other countries, they had no adoption.

Heck, living in south america I only even heard about what AOL was less than 8 years ago!



> AOL was also a US-only thing, so when Internet started reaching other countries, they had no adoption.

AOL was quite popular in the 90s/beginning of the 00s in Germany. What killed AOL there was the emerging availability of fast internet connections (say, DSL and later cable).




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