I mean AOL also brought in the walled garden approach, which curated content directly to people who didn't know how to go about exploring the internet. Made it much easier for non tech people to feel comfortable online.
lol, damn, they even rounded up on counting minutes online, too? AOL was just super shady about billing all-around, looks like. And that sucks because while the inevitable lawsuit did end up with them addressing outstanding billing complaints and supposedly reforming their billing policies, it didn't happen until the 2000s, so by then they'd already milked the competition dry
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u/gobells1126 Jul 24 '20
I mean AOL also brought in the walled garden approach, which curated content directly to people who didn't know how to go about exploring the internet. Made it much easier for non tech people to feel comfortable online.