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by pg 6829 days ago
He's talking about an earlier and much more ambitious AOL than you are. AOL once hoped to be what later turned out to be the web. But because they weren't open enough, the web grew faster, and they became merely an on-ramp for it.

(Then after a few years of being a quite prosperous on-ramp, they lost even that, which is the vanquishing you're thinking of.)

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Aha. Guess I'm too young to have known that.