[veidr]

I don't want to imply Bending Spoons is this awesome, as I know nothing much about them (except that they named their company after a weird scam, lol), but there's a pretty reasonable principle that might apply here:

If our service goes down for any reason, uh... wait until Monday afternoon, then try again. (Sorry!)

Like, who would die if AOL was down for 36 hours?

[mikeyouse]

I think they’re actually named after the scene in the matrix where the little kid (and then Neo) can bend the spoon with their mind.

[veidr]

Oh! LOL that's admittedly cooler than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Geller

[NetOpWibby]

I've heard this name on the radio in GTA2 for years but I never looked up the name. Fascinating.

[RajT88]

Considering AOL's business model was to keep old folks paying for dialup, and once they moved off of dialup continue paying for access to the AOL portal, a good chunk of their user base may already be dead and still being billed.