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

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

Shortly before its acquisition by AOL, Netscape released the source code for its browser and created the Mozilla Organization to coordinate future development of its product.

Under AOL, Netscape's browser development continued until December 2007, when Tom Drapeau, director of AOL's Netscape Brand, announced that the company would stop supporting Netscape software products as of March 1, 2008.

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 emulation was not based on reverse engineering, but instead relied on information about the protocol that AOL had published on the web ; development was also assisted by some of AOL's technical staff.

On April 6, 2007, the project development team announced the results of their settlement with AOL, which included a series of name changes: Gaim became Pidgin, libgaim became libpurple, and gaim-text became finch.

AOL entered into an agreement with systems and software company Sun Microsystems whereby engineers from both companies would work together on software development, marketing, sales, installation and support.

Stormfront's Don Daglow had been designing games for AOL for several years, and the new alliance of SSI, TSR, America On-Line, and Stormfront led to the development of Neverwinter Nights, the first graphical MMORPG, which ran on AOL from 1991 to 1997.

The first graphical MMORPG was Neverwinter Nights, which began development in 1989 and ran on AOL 1991-1997, and which included PvP.

Om Malik commented on the development as " disruptive " competition for " older IM networks such as AOL ’ s AIM and Microsoft ’ s MSN ".

To cut down on development costs, WatersMolitor formed a promotional partnership with America Online who actually manufactured the CDs in exchange for which all copies of Chex Quest came bundled with the AOL software and a " 50 Free Hours " subscription offer.

AOL announced on July 15, 2003 that it was laying off all its remaining development staff working on the Netscape version of Mozilla.

Combined with AOL's antitrust case court settlement with Microsoft to use Internet Explorer in future versions of the AOL software, this seemed to mark the effective end of development on Netscape Navigator, the open source projects notwithstanding.

As an early believer in the rapid development of the Internet, he suggested a large financial participation of Bertelsmann in America Online ( AOL ) when it was still a young company, and created the joint venture AOL Europe, with a financial holding of $ 50 million for a 5 % stake.

Its development was initiated by Netscape Communications Corporation, before their acquisition by AOL.

Under the AOL banner, Mozilla Organization continued development of the browser and management of the Mozilla source until July 2003 when this task was passed to the Mozilla Foundation.

The browser, even though it can still be downloaded, is no longer in development in favor of AOL OpenRide, which in turn was succeeded by AOL Desktop.

* 2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape.

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.

AOL allows downloading of archived versions of the Netscape Navigator web browser family.

AOL maintains the Netscape website as an Internet portal.

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

The Netscape brand is still used, as of 2012, by AOL to market a discount Internet service provider.

During this time Netscape was sold to AOL and this was seen as Netscape ’ s official loss to Microsoft in the browser wars.

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

He stayed onboard after the Netscape acquisition, and continued to work on the directory as well as Netscape Search, AOL Music and AOL Shopping.

Since its founding in 1972, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has backed entrepreneurs in more than 500 ventures including AOL, Amazon. com, Citrix, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Genentech, Genomic Health, Google, Intuit, Juniper Networks, Netscape, Sun, Symantec, Verisign, WebMD and Zynga.

Its most notable feature is that it gives the original developer of Mozilla ( Netscape, now a subsidiary of AOL ), the right to distribute modifications made by other contributors under whatever terms it desires, including proprietary terms, without granting similar rights to these other contributors in respect to contributions made by the original developer.

Netscape was acquired in 1999 for $ 4. 2 billion by AOL, which made Andreessen its Chief Technology Officer.

The company was an early investor in more than 300 information technology and biotech firms, including Amazon. com, AOL, Brio Technology, Electronic Arts, Flextronics, Genentech, Google, Hybritech, Intuit, Lotus Development, LSI Logic, Macromedia, Netscape, Quantum, Segway, Sun Microsystems and Tandem.

When AOL ( Netscape's parent ) drastically scaled back its involvement with Mozilla Organization, the Mozilla Foundation was launched on July 15, 2003 to ensure Mozilla could survive without Netscape.

The " beast " falling refers to Netscape being closed down by its now parent company AOL.

The fact that the beast has been " reborn " indicates that the spirit of Netscape will live on through the Foundation ( which is made up mostly of ex-Netscape employees ) and its strength has been " renewed " as the foundation is less reliant on AOL ( who many feel neglected Netscape ).

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

However, all official ties with AOL were severed following the announcement of the end of the Netscape Navigator browser and AOL's agreement to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser in future versions of its AOL software.

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

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

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.

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.

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 ":

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