

AOL is making some cuts to its workforce











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By Murst on 10/16/2007 11:20:10 AM , Rating: 3
Although most people only see AOL by comparing it to current offerings (a comparison at which AOL fails miserably), there used to be a good part to AOL.

I remember in the early 90s, AOL was pretty much the best thing you could get. The only other big competitor was compuserve, and if you think AOL is bad, you should have seen compuserve back then.

Yeah, it used to be crazy expensive (I remember getting 5 hours per month with the $25 package, and every additional hour was something like $3), but back then there wasn't much choice. Thankfully other plans came out a few years later and we could get 100 hours per month from a local provider, and eventually changed to unlimited and then broadband.

Its about time that AOL started folding. They're been behind their competition for over 10 years now. But I'll also remember them as the ISP who brought the internet to the masses in the US.

About the only thing I still use that's AOL-related is the AIM network, but I don't even use AOL's software to connect. Trillian seems much cleaner for the job.

RE: Weird
By Tim Thorpe on 10/16/2007 12:33:33 PM , Rating: 2
This is what happens to service companies that don't invest in infustructure to remain in the game...if AOL had used those mad crazy profits from the 90's and internet bubble to increase capacity, upgrade their network and re-engineer their software it might have been a different game.

ahhh who the hell am I kidding, they'd still suck...

RE: Weird
By euclidean on 10/16/2007 12:44:39 PM , Rating: 2
That's almost exactly what I was thinking. Good sum up. What was it...AOL 7, 8, and 9, or somewhere in that range is when they started to suck really bad. They could overhaul and offer better packages...the biggest issues I saw with them in the near past was the software...if they just got rid of that then maybe they could pick it back up again. But it wont happen unless they do, because no one wants to have their PC completely reinstalled after just setting up AOL because something in their software decided to corrupt everything...


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