Walt Mossberg

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Walt Mossberg @waltmossberg

@AOL popularized email, instant messaging and group chat for mainstream, non-techie consumers. I endorsed it over much bigger rivals - CompuServe and Prodigy - in a column in October, 1992. (Can’t find free link, sorry.) Congrats to @SteveCase and his team for a huge achievement. https://t.co/WohpQQ8ivx — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 25, 2020

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Some people laugh at @AOL today, and others are too young to remember it. But, although it wasn’t the first pre-Web “online service”, it was the first to use a standardized graphical user interface. And it got mainstream America online before there were even web browsers. — PolitiTweet.org

Happy Birthday, @AOL! Company was founded 35 years ago today, when only 3% of people were online, for an average of… https://t.co/3kuEYIRv5v

Posted May 25, 2020

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@trentlmoore If you want know the whole story of the rise of @AOL, get @karaswisher’s 1999 book on the topic. (She also wrote a sequel years later on AOL’s demise.) https://t.co/wrXMvahibP — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 25, 2020