The merged company will be renamed COL: Crap On Line.
COL is a fitting name for both AOL and MSN
One more reason to hate Microsoft! AOL/COL s!cks!
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The merged company will be renamed COL: Crap On Line.
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Crap On Line is dead. Thanks Google for preventing this nightmare from becoming reality.
3 years later and the AOL acquisition rumors continue.
Quote:When it releases its second-quarter numbers Wednesday, Time Warner will also announce it's ready to dump AOL's dialup business. A combination of modem banks, CD-ROM mailers, and ruthless telemarketers which introduced America to the information superhighway in the 1990s, AOL's ISP business still has more than 8 million subscribers who pay through the nose for a quaintly overpriced service. What will be left: A collection of websites and an online-advertising business that has yet to get advertisers to pay anything even vaguely overpriced. Time Warner has flirted with Yahoo and Microsoft for years, but hasn't yet sealed a deal to get rid of AOL...
full article:
http://valleywag.com/5032679/yahoo-holds...tartup-aol
AOL should be renamed ASS [Allied Stalkers Surf].