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| Company name | AOL Inc. | | Company type | Public (Nyse - AOL) | | Industry | Internet & Communications | | Founded | 2009 as AOL Inc.
1983 as Quantum Computer Services, Vienna, Virginia | | Headquarters | 770 Broadway,New York City, New York | | Key people | Tim Armstrong
(Chairman and CEO) | | Products | Online advertising | | Employees | (+) 6,700 (12-31-2009) |
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AOL Inc. (Nyse - AOL), formerly known as America Online and logo typeset as "Aol.", is an American global Internet services and media company. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York. Founded in 1983 as Quantum Computer Services, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions of its services.
AOL is best known for its online software suite, also called AOL, that allowed customers to access the world's largest "walled garden" online community and eventually reach out to the internet as a whole. At its zenith, AOL's membership was over 30 million members worldwide, most of whom accessed the AOL service through the AOL software suite.
On May 28, 2009, Time Warner announced that it would spin off AOL into a separate public company. The spin off occurred on December 9, 2009, ending the 8 year relationship between the two companies.
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| AOL release timeline |
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| 1989 |
America Online for Macintosh received as a popular Apple Macintosh BBS |
| February 1991 |
AOL for DOS launched |
| January 1993 |
AOL 2.0 for the Apple Macintosh released,
AOL 1.0 for Microsoft Windows 3.x launched |
| June 1994 |
AOL 1.5 for Microsoft Windows 3.x released |
| September 1994 |
AOL 2.0 for Microsoft Windows 3.x released |
| June 1995 |
AOL 2.5 for Microsoft Windows 3.x released |
| June 1995 |
AOL 3.0 (Win16) for Windows 3.x/Windows 95/Windows NT released |
| June 1996 |
AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 released |
| July 1998 / June 1999 |
AOL 4.0 (Casablanca) and Refresh 2 released |
| September 1999 |
AOL 5.0 (Kilimanjaro) released |
| June 2000 |
AOL 5.0 for 9x/NT/2K (Niagara) released |
| October and December 2000 |
AOL 6.0 (K2 � Karakorum) and Refresh released |
| September 2001 |
AOL 6.0.2 for XP (Steppenwolf) launched |
| October and December 2001, May and July 2002 |
AOL 7.0 (Taz) and Refresh 1, Refresh 2, and Refresh 2 Plus released |
| October 2002 |
AOL 8.0 (Spacely) released |
| April 2003 |
AOL 8.0 Plus (Elroy) launched |
| August and September 2003 |
AOL 9.0 Optimized (Bunker Hill / Blue Hawaii) and Refresh released |
| May 2004 |
AOL 9.0 Optimized SE/LE (Thailand / Tahiti) released |
| November 2004, July 2005 |
AOL 9.0 Security Edition SE/LE (Strauss) and Refresh released |
| August 2005 to March 2006 |
AOL Suite Beta launched (cancelled) |
| September 2006, March 2007 |
AOL OpenRide (Streamliner) launched |
| November 2006, April 2007 |
AOL 9.0 VR and Refresh (Raga) released (AOL 9.0 for Microsoft Windows Vista but also works with Microsoft Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP) |
| September 2007 |
AOL Desktop for Mac Beta released |
| October 31, 2007 |
AOL 9.1 (Tarana) released |
| December 2007 |
AOL Desktop (a.k.a. AOL 10.0) launched |
| May 2008 |
AOL Desktop for Mac 1.0 officially launched |
| September 2008 |
AOL Desktop 10.1 released |
| February 2009 |
AOL 9.5 released (Classic) (Beta refreshed sometime in 2009) |
| October 2009 |
AOL 9.5 Refresh released, compatible with XP, Vista and Windows 7 |
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