130. AOL, AIM, Chat Rooms, The Time Warner Merger... AOL's History with Joe Schober

Internet History Podcast

• Episode: 130. AOL, AIM, Chat Rooms, The Time Warner Merger... AOL's History with Joe Schober
• Website: Internet History Podcast
• Feed URL: https://rss.acast.com/internethistorypodcast
• Duration: 01:40:30
• Published: 2017-02-06 03:25

Joe Schober was the longest serving employee of America Online, working there as an engineer, and later chief architect, from 1992 until just a few years ago. So, there literally couldn't be anyone better to walk us through AOL's history and many iterations. In this episode, we go back to the days when America Online was an underdog online service with only a couple hundred thousand users, through AOL's dominance in the early web era, the AOL/Time Warner merger... all of it, including an insider look at the chatrooms and AIM.

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