AOL began as a short-lived venture called Control Video Corporation (or CVC), founded by William von Meister. Its sole product was an online service called Gameline for the Atari 2600 video game console after von Meister's idea of buying music on demand was rejected by Warner Brothers. (Klein, 2003) Subscribers bought a modem from the company for $49.95 and paid a one-time $15 setup fee. Gameline permitted subscribers to temporarily download games and keep track of high scores, at a cost of approximately $1 an hour. In 1983, the company nearly went bankrupt, and an investor in Control Video, Frank Caufield, had a friend of his, Jim Kimsey, brought in as a manufacturing consultant. That same year, Steve Case was hired as a part-time consultant; later on that year, he joined the company as a full-time marketing employee upon the joint recommendations of von Meister and Kimsey. Kimsey went on to become the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the newly renamed Quantum Computer Services in 1985, after von Meister was quietly dropped from the company. Case himself rose quickly through the ranks; Kimsey promoted him to vice-president of marketing not long after becoming CEO, and later promoted him further to executive vice-president in 1987. Kimsey soon began to groom Case to ascend to the rank of CEO, which he did when Kimsey retired in 1991. Kimsey changed the company's strategy, and in 1985 launched a sort of mega-BBS for Commodore 64 and 128 computers, originally called Quantum Link ("Q-Link" for short). In May 1988, Quantum and Apple launched AppleLink Personal Edition for Apple II and Macintosh computers. After the two companies parted ways in October 1989, Quantum changed the service's name to America Online. In August 1988, Quantum launched PC Link, a service for IBM-compatible PCs developed in a joint venture with the Tandy Corporation. Under Case's guidance, AOL committed to including online games in its mix of products even when it was only a Commodore 64 service. In the early years of AOL the company introduced many innovative online interactive titles and games, including: * Graphical chat environments Habitat (1986-1988) and Club Caribe (1988) from LucasArts, * The first online interactive fiction series QuantumLink Serial by Tracy Reed (1988), * Quantum Space, the first fully automated Play by email game (1989-1991), * The original Dungeons and Dragons title Neverwinter Nights from Stormfront Studios (1991-1997), the first Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) to depict the adventure with graphics instead of text (1991) and * The first chat room-based text role-playing game Black Bayou (1996-2004), a Horror role-playing game from Hecklers Online and ANTAGONIST, Inc. In February 1991 AOL for DOS was launched using a GeoWorks interface followed a year later by AOL for Windows. In October 1991, Quantum changed its name to America Online. These changes coincided with growth in pay-based BBS services, like Prodigy, CompuServe, and GEnie. AOL discontinued Q-Link and PC Link in the fall of 1994. Massive growth Case drove AOL as the online service for people unfamiliar with computers, in particular contrast to CompuServe, which had long served the technical community. AOL was the first online service to require use of proprietary software, rather than a standard terminal program; as a result it was able to offer a graphical user interface (GUI) instead of command lines, and was well ahead of the competition in emphasizing communication among members as a feature. In particular was the Chat Room (borrowed from IRC), which allowed a large group of people with similar interests to convene and hold conversations in real time, including: * Private rooms
AOL will be the new ticker symbol after AOL is spun off from AOL Time Warner.
As of July 2014, the market cap for AOL Inc. (AOL) is $3,144,766,348.92.
The symbol for AOL Inc. in the NYSE is: AOL.
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To register for an AOL chat room, firstly an AOL username will need to be created via the AOL website. After that the AOL software needs to be downloaded, also from the AOL website. Once the AOL software has been downloaded and installed, you are free to use the chat rooms.
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AOL's older weather report is not longer available. Their new SKYE on AOL, is available on their Weather AOL website or at AOL Local as of January 2013.
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As of 2021, there is no specific population associated with AOL as it is an internet service provider and media company rather than a geographic location with inhabitants.
There is an AOL app and you can use exchange to set up your AOL email
18 years and above to sign a legal agreement with the terms of AOL to be on AOL.