[chasd00]

The desktop client had something like a browser. iirc you could get to the Internet but it was like AOL's version of the Internet. There was a keyword based search but I think websites had to register specific keywords with AOL or something like that to show up. The big thing with AOL was the "you've got mail!" sound once you connected. That voice was like a pop-culture meme back then.

[scarface_74]

It wasn’t a browser by any modern sense of the word early on. All of the graphics were on the disk to reduce load time.