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>> shopping is now turned off. >> we know there's a lot of pain to go around in terms of the stock market these days but aol stock's gotten beaten down even more than the rest of the market. >> aol and time warner was probably the worst deal in history. >> aol didn't really control the internet in the way they claimed to. >> everything is a lot easier and the internet is a lot more user-friendly. the internet moved to what aol was doing, so now what is aol's unique selling point and are you going to pay $23.95 a month extra for that? >> i feel like my retirement's going up in smoke as we talk ...

>> the aol-time warner merger was the classic dotcom insanity. >> $160 billion. the biggest corporate takeover ever. >> this merger will launch the next internet revolution. >> the merger of time warner and aol wasn't really a merger. it was a purchase. >> i am struck by this image today of the upstart aol gobbling up this media institution time warner. shouldn't it be the other way around? >> well, it's sort of startling that a company that couldn't even buy beer is now buying one of the oldest media companies in the country that took a century to get this big. >> we're just scratching the su...

Savvy people. prodigy was for shopping and aol had a vision to get everyone connected. the first one. >> when i heard that sound, i cried a little bit because i knew there was a big adventure waiting for me. >> welcome. you've got mail. >> compuserve charged by the minute. it was like a taxicab. aol's invention was to forget that and charge $19.95 a month all you can eat. that changed everything because now you could afford to be on the internet all you wanted. >> you didn't have to be a researcher. you could dial on to aol. aol was specifically designed to be point and click. >> steve case is...

People at once. you need little neighborhoods so chat rooms become internet neighborhoods where people who share interests, create their own little space. you can either click on the chat button up here or go to the people connection, that's what america online calls it and when you get here, click on list rooms to find different categories of rooms. >> when i was a kid, i didn't know any other black gay people. the only people i knew why the folks that i met on america online. i didn't come out to my mother till much later but i was out on the internet. >> in many respects aol was one of the ...

Impact, but they hinted that they will have a bigger impact in terms of data and things like that, but this is a company where we saw a user growth slowing down a long time ago. three when we reached a moment, the hearing in d.c., subscriber growth was down, and here is my query. "the wall street journal," put it on the screen. all about the conference call. altogether, a remarkable turn of events, given that most analysts had expected them to deliver yet another stellar earnings report yet, they must grapple with the question whether facebook too has limits. aol was booming in the late 1990s....