<company, communications> (AOL) A US on-line service provider
based in Vienna, Virginia, USA. AOL claims to be the largest
and fastest growing provider of on-line services in the world,
with the most active subscriber base. AOL offers its three
million subscribers electronic mail, interactive newspapers
and magazines, conferencing, software libraries, computing
support, and on-line classes.
In October 1994 AOL made Internet FTP available to its
members and in May 1995, full Internet access including
World-Wide Web.
AOL's main competitors are Prodigy and Compuserve.
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(1997-08-26)
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