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Thursday, February 25, 2021

Basic timeline of AOL

This post is a basic timeline of AOL. There are 23 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• William von Meister founds Control Video Corporation (1983)
• GameLine for Atari 2600 (1983)
• Quantum Link (1985)
• AppleLink (1988)
• PC Link (1988)
• Renamed to AOL (1989)
• AOL for DOS (1991)
• Steve Case becomes CEO (1991)
• AOL joins Usenet (1993)
• WebCrawler is acquired (1995)
• WebCrawler is sold to Excite (1996)
• NetFind (AOL Search) (1997)
• AOL Instant Messenger (1997)
• Netscape is acquired (1999)
• MapQuest is acquired (1999)
• Merges with Time Warner (2000)
• Tim Armstrong becomes CEO (2009)
• Time Warner announces AOL spin-off (2009)
• Publicly traded (2009)
• TechCrunch is acquired (2010)
• Huffington Post is acquired (2011)
• Verizon acquires AOL for $4.4 billion (2015)
• Huffington Post sold to BuzzFeed (2020)