It is an upgrade to the prior AOL Quick Buddy, which was later available for older systems that cannot handle Express before being discontinued.

( Appelman later moved to AOL to be the head of all its development efforts.

Federation II was later picked up by AOL, where it became known simply as " Federation: Adult Space Fantasy ".

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

This was primarily due to the increased usage of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser software, and partly because the Netscape Corporation ( later purchased by AOL ) did not sustain Netscape Navigator's technical innovation after the late 1990s.

" ( Quantum Link later became America Online and made AOL Instant Messenger ( AIM ), discussed later ).

In 1993, they launched one of the first Web-based resources, Global Network Navigator, which was later sold to AOL.

GemStone was originally accessed through General Electric's internet service provider GEnie, later becoming accessible through AOL, Prodigy, and CompuServe before Simutronics finally moved all their games to their own domain in 1997.

For a while, MapQuest included satellite images through a licensing deal with GlobeXplorer, but later removed them due to the unorthodox business mechanics of the arrangement brokered by AOL.

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 episode was said to have cost between $ 500, 000 and $ 1 million to produce and was on bud. tv for a 4 week period and later released to AOL and other media outlets.

When Ziff-Davis did not launch the service, DragonRealms was offered on GEnie and later AOL, Compuserve, and Prodigy.

The Madster service was initially called Aimster, but it was later renamed to Madster due to concerns that the Aimster name infringed AOL's AIM ( AOL Instant Messenger ) trademark.

This version of the multiplayer BattleTech computer game was available on AOL, and on Kesmai's ( later named GameStorm ) game service between 1996 and 2001.

( Matthew Wilkening of AOL Radio later ranked the song at # 27 on the list of the 100 Worst Songs Ever while telling Will Smith in spirit, " Look, make your dumb ' robots in the Wild West ' film, get millions, God bless.

Quantum Computer Services was later reorganized as AOL.

Apart from baseball, Stormfront's initial projects were a series of online titles for AOL, including the first original play-by-email game, Quantum Space ( 1989 ) and later the first graphical MMORPG, the original Neverwinter Nights ( 1991 – 1997 ).

" The " Shaggy defense " was later referenced by Matthew Wilkening on AOL Radio, who ranked the song at # 55 on the list of the 100 Worst Songs Ever, stating that the song was " o bad it further corrupted lawyers.

* In the late 1990s, Century 21's president was Robert W. Pittman, creator of MTV and former CEO of AOL and later of Time Warner.

AOL acquired Mirabilis on June 8, 1998, for US $ 287 million in cash up front and $ 120 million in additional payments over three years.

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.

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.

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.

Connecticut College graduates of note include The Atlantic senior editor Joshua Green, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong ( executive ), New York Times best-selling authors Sloane Crosley and David Grann, fashion designer Peter Som, philanthropist Nan Kempner.

In April 2010, AOL sold ICQ to Digital Sky Technologies for $ 187. 5 million.

* On December 19, 2002, AOL Time Warner announced that ICQ had been issued a United States patent for instant messaging.

AOL pursued an aggressive policy regarding alternative (" unauthorized ") ICQ clients.

* PlayXpert: supports ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk, Sony Station Friends, MSN, Yahoo!

AOL has recently begun making its ICQ software more AIM-like by adding AIM Smilies, as well as introducing cross AIM – ICQ communication.

Modern, Internet-wide, GUI-based messaging clients as they are known today, began to take off in the mid 1990s with PowWow, ICQ, and AOL Instant Messenger.

Popular, consumer-oriented clients include AOL Instant Messenger, Google speech, ICQ, Meebo, MSN Messenger, Pidgin ( formerly maig ), and Yahoo!

Sometime near August 19, 2005, AOL discontinued support for the protocol and no longer uses it in any of the instant messaging clients it actively maintains, such as its Windows and Mac clients for the AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ systems.

AOL sold ICQ to Digital Sky Technologies for $ 187. 5 million on April 28, 2010.

IBM Sametime Gateway connects IBM Sametime instant messaging cooperate communities with external communities, including external IBM Sametime, and public instant messaging communities, such as: AOL, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Google Talk, and XMPP.

The Nokia 3595 includes an IM client for AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ in the latest firmware revisions.

Among the first to emerge were instant messaging clients such as ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger and MSN Messenger.

Multi-protocol ( universal ) instant messaging for AOL, Facebook, Google Talk, iChat, ICQ, XMPP ( Jabber ), MySpace, Windows Live Messenger ( MSN ), and Yahoo!

It was based on a more stable and notably faster Mozilla 1. 0 core and bundled with extras like integrated AOL Instant Messenger, integrated ICQ, Radio @ Netscape, and new features such as tabbed browsing.

* AOL, MSN, ICQ and Yahoo!