"on them", not "on it".

How much longer do we have to wait until someone other than Constant is posting here again?

Yeah, and Facebook wouldn't exist if AOL (or some imaginary similar company) had done what they did.

It's like laughing at landline phones, or telegraphs, because cell phones are so much handier. Or making fun of the people who built computers that took up an entire floor of a university science building when they should have just used their iPhone.

Bah.

Haha, Carnegie spent money making steel when he could have made plastic for less costs!

I made Ian a Burning Man costume out of AOL CDs spraypainted to resemble pokeballs.

They also made great coasters.

(humorous aside - at the time I owned 400 shares of AOL/TW)

@6, AHHH HAH HAH HAH HAH. Good one, Will.

(humorous aside - I have eighteen dollars and twenty-two cents in my pocket)

PS - they made shitty coasters.

They made great coasters for mugs of hard cider served with ice and lime.

Coffee mugs less so.

Maybe I'm missing something? It seemed to work out just fine in terms of getting a lot of paying them to go online with AOL as their internet service provider.

At the time, they were selling internet service, not social networking (if you want to be really cynical about it, facebook is selling you, not themselves); so I don't really see how this is a valid comparison.