Netscape stock traded from 1995 until 1999 when it was acquired by AOL in a pooling-of-interests transaction ultimately worth US $ 10 billion.

When Netscape was acquired by AOL he wrote a famous bulletin explaining the nature of the Free Software Mozilla code.

AOL later acquired Mirabilis, the authors of ICQ ; a few years later ICQ ( now owned by AOL ) was awarded two patents for instant messaging by the U. S. patent office.

Although Eric Bischoff was nearing a deal to purchase the company complete, in March 2001, WWF Entertainment, Inc. acquired WCW from AOL Time Warner for a number reported to be around $ 7 million.

In June 1999 AOL simultaneously acquired Nullsoft and Spinner. com in a combined purchase worth approximately $ 400 million.

In a July 21, 1999 SEC S-3 filing by AOL, the transaction was recorded as a payment of 2, 863, 053 shares of AOL common stock to the 54 stockholders in the two companies being acquired.

In November 1999 Inktomi acquired Webspective ; in August 2000 Inktomi acquired Ultraseek Server from Disney's Go. com ; in September, 2000, Inktomi acquired FastForward Networks ; in December 2000, Inktomi acquired the Content Bridge Business Unit from Adero, a content delivery network, which had formed the Content Bridge Alliance with Inktomi, AOL and a number of other ISPs, hosting providers and IP transport providers ; and in June 2001 Inktomi acquired eScene Networks.

In earlier acquisitions Inktomi acquired C2B and Impulse Buy Networks, both companies which had pioneered the comparison shopping space and that had pioneered the performance-based marketing market, with over 4 million products registered in the service in 1998, and serving millions of merchandise product offers daily across 20, 000 websites including Yahoo !, MSN, and AOL shopping.

In September 1998 Inktomi acquired C2B Technologies, adding a shopping engine technology to its portfolio ; In April 1999 Inktomi acquired Impulse Buy Network, adding 400 merchants to its shopping engine and performance based business shopping model ; in November 1999 Inktomi acquired Webspective ; in August 2000 Inktomi acquired Ultraseek Server from Disney's Go. com ; in September, 2000, Inktomi acquired FastForward Networks ; in December 2000, Inktomi acquired the Content Bridge Business Unit from Adero, a content delivery network, which had formed the Content Bridge Alliance with Inktomi, AOL and a number of other ISPs, hosting providers and IP transport providers ; and in June 2001 Inktomi acquired eScene Networks.

In turn, AOL grew as it acquired Time Warner in 2000 when Time Warner was the world's largest media conglomerate.

Only the largest services like AOL ( which later acquired CompuServe, just as CompuServe acquired The Source ) were able to make the transition to the Internet-centric world.

The technology's success caused AOL to acquire Mirabilis on June 8, 1998, for US $ 287 million up front and $ 120 million in additional payments over three years.

In the end, Microsoft ended up buying Hotmail for US $ 400 million and AOL bought Mirabilis for $ 288 million.

AOL released an all-new AIM for the Macintosh on September 29, 2008 and the final build on December 15, 2008.

The next day, AOL stopped the availability of the program over legal concerns and restrained Nullsoft from doing any further work on the project.

Such capability made it to beta stages, but AOL announced discontinuation of cross AIM-ICQ communication on November 5, 2010.

Federation later left AOL to run on its own after AOL began offering unlimited service.

Later, its 2-D graphical descendant Legends of Kesmai was launched on AOL in 1996.

GemStone III became available on AOL in September 1995, followed by the release of DragonRealms in February 1996.

By the end of 1997 GemStone III and DragonRealms had become the first and second most played games on AOL.

AOL stopped development of Netscape Navigator on December 28, 2007, but continued supporting the web browser with security updates until March 1, 2008.

In the October 1994 Issue of Wired, Gary Wolfe notes in the article, " The ( Second Phase of the ) Revolution Has Begun: Don't look now, but Prodigy, AOL, and CompuServe are all suddenly obsolete-and Mosaic is well on its way to becoming the world's standard interface ":

On July 15, 2003, AOL laid off the remaining Gecko developers and the Mozilla Foundation ( formed on the same day ) became the main steward of Gecko development.

The military observers carry-out fortnightly inspections inside the Area of Limitations ( AOL ) to verify, that both sides adhere to the limitations on troop levels and military equipment within 10, 20 and 25 km zones from the AOS as prescribed by the 1974 Disengagement Agreement.

He currently sits on the board of directors of multiple corporations, including Barrick Gold, Quebecor Inc., Archer Daniels Midland, TrizecHahn Corp. ( Toronto ), Cendant Corp. ( New York ), AOL Latin America, Inc. ( New York ) and Cognicase Inc. ( Montreal ).

Frankel threatened to resign on June 2, 2003, after AOL removed his program WASTE, a private peer-to-peer file-sharing program, from the Nullsoft website.

Frankel announced his resignation from AOL on January 22, 2004 on his weblog, stating " Won't repeat it here ( in two words: I've resigned ).

On Wednesday, December 29, 2010, according to an Associated Press news story featured on the AOL News homepage, a family-owned furniture store ( located in downtown Wayne about 15 miles southwest of Detroit ) exploded and collapsed in what authorities believed to be a natural gas explosion, critically injuring the store's owner, Paul Franks ( who was listed in serious condition in the burn unit of the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor ), and trapping two others beneath the rubble, after a failed attempt by area police to locate them using their cellular phones.

* Profile on AOL Hometown

On April 12, 1998, an event promoted as an online chat with Koko took place on AOL. The transcript of this event, available on many locations on the Internet, contains at least one instance of Koko making a statement resembling a sentence: " Lips fake candy give me "; uttered while Koko was trying to get Patterson to give her a treat.

* A transcript of the AOL chat on April 27, 1998

The software, developed by Nullsoft ( purchased by AOL on June 1, 1999 ), allows digital audio content, primarily in MP3 or HE-AAC format, to be broadcast to and from media player software, enabling the creation of Internet radio " stations ".

The " Talk About Our Love " online campaign kicked off with an AOL First Listen premiere, and Brandy was AOL's " Artist of the Month " for June 2004.

This was one of the 12 Bugs Bunny cartoons that were pulled out of Cartoon Network's June Bugs 2001 marathon by order of AOL Time Warner due to stereotypes of Japanese people.

The music video for " In My Place " was directed by Sophie Muller, and it debuted on 17 June 2002 on AOL.

In late May 2005, AOL informed its Community Leaders that they would be released from their positions on June 8 of that year.

AOL / Netscape's rights were acquired by Red Hat, and on June 1, 2005, much of the source code was released as free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License ( GPL ).

The second videoclip for the Song " Innocence " was first introduced by AOL / Noisecreep in June.

Joystiq is a video gaming blog founded in June 2004 as part of the Weblogs, Inc. ( WIN ) family of weblogs, now owned by AOL.

" So Yesterday " premiered on AOL Music's " First Listen " on June 27, 2003.

" So Yesterday " premiered on AOL Music's " First Listen " on June 27, 2003, and it drew over 500, 000 streams in two days.