[OGinparadise]

They had a 10 year or so golden opportunity to pivot and try different models backed by dial-up revenue.

I'd say that they failed

[DavidBradbury]

Oddly enough, they're still a company worth roughly $2.17 billion. I'd certainly be happy with that failure.

[OGinparadise]

Me too--even with 170K at this point in my life, but let's look at where AOL was and the chances they had.

[bjoernw]

How do you define failure?

[OGinparadise]

What do they have going for the next 1-5-10 years? A few blogs?