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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RetiredNow who wrote (373794)	3/11/2008 8:34:58 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573213

Mindmeld, > AOL and MSN were built on top of the Internet, silly. No they weren't. When the Internet gained popularity, AOL started adding access to it, first through its proprietary software, then later through other Internet software (thus turning AOL into a virtual ISP). Another example is CompuServe, which existed throughout most of the 80's and 90's but only started offering its members access to Internet e-mail around 1989. Later as the WWW became popular, CompuServe then provided its members with web access through Mosaic. I could also bring up Prodigy as another online service that wasn't built on top of the Internet. I think Jim McMannis used to frequent the discussion boards on Prodigy. Tenchusatsu