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May 3, 2021
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Verizon will sell Yahoo and AOL for $5 billion to private equity firm Apollo Global Management, giving up on its digital-media ambitions in the face of competition from Google and Facebook.

 

By @Nancy OShea

 

AOL was the first internet provider I signed up to back in the day on a 68k modem. They sent cd discs out to virtually every household in the UK, if my memory serves me correctly (so many years back) - you could use the information provided on that to sign up by some means, which I cant remember. Every dog has its day as they say.......

    Nancy OShea
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    Nancy OSheaCommunity ExpertAuthor
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    May 3, 2021

    Yup.  At one point I must have had 30-40 unused AOL starter discs which I cut up to make Christmas decorations. Long before Google there was Yahoo, the first decent search engine of the era.

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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    osgood_
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    May 4, 2021
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    Yup.  At one point I must have had 30-40 unused AOL starter discs which I cut up to make Christmas decorations.

     


    By @Nancy OShea

     

    Too true, there certainly was an abundance of AOL discs lying around.

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