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To: baystock who wrote (47093)	1/15/2000 11:12:00 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116789

WILL AOL-TIME WARNER BE ANOTHER ATARI? By JOHN CRUDELE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THERE was no company as hot in the 1970s as Atari. Kids couldn't get enough of the company's video games. Those of us writing back then about the electronics industry thought it was a corporate god that would fill our pages for many, many decades to come. Atari were getting into everything. The brains at the high-flyer were planning to make home computers and branch out into other technologies. And that was back when most people didn't know we even needed computers, much less something called the Internet. Atari sold hardware and software. It advertised everywhere. It was as omnipresent in pop culture as, well, America Online is today. Atari's run lasted only about 15 years, which isn't very impressive by empire standards. It suffered a slow death in the ?80s and (cont) nypostonline.com