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2.34 million people are still paying AOL 20 bucks a month

Aug

2014

I love this post from Recodes Peter Kafka, who points out that AOLs solid Q2 numbers arent really based on its high-profile media properties like The Huffington Post, but rather the dial-up business, which has been minting pure profit for years. Its safe to assume that most of these people dont even know theyre paying, and […]

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Meet the voice behind AOL’s ‘You’ve got mail’ sound clip

Jul

2014

Have you ever wondered who recorded AOL’s extremely popular “You’ve got mail” line, which you may have heard countless times so far alongside other familiar phrases spoken by your computer including “Welcome,” “File’s done” or “Goodbye?” CNBC has the answer, as the actor who was hired to record the clip more than twenty years ago retired this […]

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Here’s why your Comcast rep is yelling at you

Jul

2014

In 2006, a man named Vincent Ferrari called AOL and tried to cancel his internet service. It took him 21 minutes as an increasingly desperate customer service rep named John tried to talk him out of it. Last week, AOL vice president Ryan Block had a similar experience with a Comcast rep. As The Awl’s […]

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