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AOL Pretends to be the Internet - The History of the Web (thehistoryoftheweb.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.capebreton.social/post/497698

In 1994, Ted Leonsis was the head of the new media marketing firm he created, Redgate Communications, spun out six years earlier from a CD-ROM based computer shopping business. Redgate dealed in digital media—sometimes called new media—new territory in the marketing world. And he was pretty good at it. That year, he went out to lunch with one his investment bankers, Dan Case. Case mentioned that his brother Steve was working at a small internet company looking to bring internet services to the mainstream. They had only just finished rebranding to a new name, with a new purpose, America Online.

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[–] greybeard@lemmy.one 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You and I lived in very different 90s.

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What was yours like?

[–] greybeard@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago

As another commenter mentioned, the 90s as peak Reaganomics, the war on drugs were destroying poor neighborhoods, and prescription drug abuse was skyrocketing. Reaganomics were robbing the middle class of what little wealth they had. The war on drugs was ensuring that poor families were being destroyed. Prescription drug over prescription as feeding families directly to the war on drugs.

That's the 90s I remember. The entire system had been broken to make as many people as possible poor, and keep them there.

[–] demlet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Very different...