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Attack of the Fanboy
Attack of the FanboyAug 21, 2026
A 38-year-old woman convinced a couple she was a sick 12-year-old, then they threw her a birthday party and paid for her treatment
NewsBrazil
Attack of the Fanboy
Attack of the FanboyJul 18, 2026
Florida man allegedly asked children to pet him before pepper-spraying family at pet store
NewsTrue Crime
Home - Maryland Matters
Home - Maryland MattersJul 13, 2026
How Virginia became the world’s data center capital and how it’s going
EnvironmentWork & the Economy
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5 Magazine - 5Mag.netApr 29, 2026
New owner guts Eventbrite staff
NewsAOL
Front Page [Unofficial]
Front Page [Unofficial]Apr 7, 2026
Comedian struggles to accurately explain how people used to get online with AOL
CulturePop Culture
Scene Magazine
Scene MagazineApr 4, 2026
The Saturday Scene: Trump fires his Attorney General, doctors strike next week, and the case for Europe grows
The long Easter weekend has arrived. Just because it's been a short week doesn't mean less has happened in the world. There has been a lot of news, both good and bad, this week. There are some issues that are worth spending time reflecting on. The Prime Minister's increasingly brazen and rapid move towards European reintegration, as well as the US President's dismissal of close allies, seem to indicate the emergence of two political realities, which we explore below. As always, please get comf
Majority of Americans back trans equality, new survey findsannounced
Techdirt
TechdirtFeb 9, 2026
Reflections On Section 230’s Past, Present, And Future On Its 30th Anniversary
aolbig tech
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetDec 22, 2025
Beyond The Last Minute
Tedium’s annual last-minute gift guide presumes you’re going to give your loved ones gifts on the 26th … or let’s be honest, the middle of January.
tediumabout tedium
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetAug 11, 2025
Far-Flung Modems
AOL is ditching dial-up. They’re not required to continue running their dial-up service forever. But it would sure be nice.
aolmodems
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetMay 13, 2025
Wrong Merger, Wrong Direction
How MapQuest, a company innovative enough to kill road atlases in one fell swoop, was turned into an also-ran by a bad merger affected by an even worse one.
mapsmapquest
Devtools FM
Devtools FMJan 15, 2024
Eric Simons - StackBlitz
Eric Simons reveals how living in AOL's headquarters led to StackBlitz and WebContainers that run Node.js and npm directly in your browser.
techweb
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJul 12, 2023
Message In A Bottle
The current splintering of social media across networks is creating a problem eerily reminiscent of the early battles over instant messaging. Here’s what we can learn.
aolaol instant messenger
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJul 23, 2021
The Dial-Up Volunteer Army
Considering the fact that many early online networks relied on volunteers to help build up their base—until one such network, AOL, got too big.
aolamerica online
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetApr 9, 2020
The Original Internet Bottleneck
Many early ISPs—particularly AOL—weren’t ready to offer unlimited internet access in the mid-’90s. That is, until a surprising disruptor appeared: AT&T.
aolamerica online
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetMay 28, 2019
Michael Wolff’s Internet Book Empire
The Trump administration tell-all scribe has a history with digital publishing that goes way back. In fact, he edited one of the first guides to the internet.
internet historymichael wolff
Anil Dash
Anil DashAug 20, 2015
It is miraculous.
Sometimes I get an idea in my head and I just can’t let it go. For a few months, I’ve heard this nagging sound in the back of my mind, asking me to revisit Amadeus, one of my favorite films ever. Because who among us hasn’t heard Jeremih intone, “shots…shotsshotsshots” and cursed god for…
musicalicia-keys
Anil Dash
Anil DashFeb 26, 2014
Talking to Steve Case
I had the chance to interview Steve Case for Social Media Week the other day, and though it was a brief conversation, I was really pleased with how it went. Steve’s earliest work on Quantum Link, a predecessor to what would someday become AOL, was formative in my understanding of what computers…
aoltech
Anil Dash
Anil DashSep 20, 2012
Tech Now Has Its Own RIAA. Meesa Scared!
Today marks the launch of The Internet Association, a laudable effort from a number of prominent Internet technology companies to address our industry’s historic lack of engagement with the policy world by creating a lobbying group with a coherent platform and formidable backing. I’m happy to see…
policytech
Anil Dash
Anil DashOct 9, 2007
Blackbird, Rainman, Facebook and the Watery Web
I’ve seen a number of people make reference to Facebook’s application platform without knowing a lot of background about some historical examples that might be useful to learn from. So, since I remember a good bit of info about these things, I figured I’d share it for future reference. In 1995,…
blogstech
Anil Dash
Anil DashApr 26, 2007
Is Pidgin the Firefox of IM?
Pidgin, formerly GAIM, is the best instant messaging client available; It works with all common IM networks, supports extensions and customizations through plugins, has smart and simple default settings, runs on all common desktop platforms, and is a free open source application. Being so similar…
open-sourcetech
Anil Dash
Anil DashDec 22, 2006
How to kill a personality
About a month ago, Fortune‘s Jeffrey O’Brien interviewed Seagate CEO Bill Watkins, and pulled the conversation’s most memorable quote for the headline: “Let’s face it, we’re not changing the world. We’re building a product that helps people buy more crap – and watch porn.” Predictably, the honestly…
mediatech
Anil Dash
Anil DashNov 21, 2006
More Linking, Less Thinking
- I’ve been ruminating about radio a lot lately (more on that later), but one of the most pleasant radio discoveries of late has been XM Radio’s 80s and 90s stations, as well as their “20 on 20” pop hits station. Imagine my delight when I found that AOL Radio is streaming them for free. - Let’s…
aolandy-baio
Anil Dash
Anil DashDec 5, 2005
Bay Movies, Bernoulli, Slang at the Pole and KartMatch
Sometimes I miss when I used to just share random links with folks. So here’s what’s caught my eye lately. Greencine’s list of movies filmed in the Bay Area led me to a series of great before-and-after shots of locations from Hitchcock’s Vertigo, with an amazing number of places looking virtually…
animationaol
Anil Dash
Anil DashMar 1, 2004
A city covered in coasters
Last week, my former employer decided to include an AOL promotional CD in each copy of the newspaper that was distributed in Manhattan. Now, the thing you have to understand here is that tens of thousandsof copies of this newspaper are distributed on the island in a week. And they’refree. Piles of…
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