The now defunct America Online Online Gaming Forum used to use volunteers selected by applications from its user base.

ICQ is an instant messaging computer program that was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Mirabilis, then bought by America Online, and since April 2010 owned by Mail. ru Group.

America Online acquired Mirabilis on June 8, 1998, for $ 407 million ($ 287 million in cash and $ 120 million over a three-year period based on growth performance levels ).

GEnie was shut down in the late 1980s, although Dragon's Gate was later brought to America Online before it was finally released on its own.

Mirabilis is an Israeli start-up which pioneered instant messaging ( IM ) and was bought by America Online.

* January 10 – America Online announces an agreement to purchase Time Warner for $ 162 billion ( the largest-ever corporate merger ).

* January 11 – The U. S. Federal Trade Commission approves the merger of America Online and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner.

In recent years, F Newsmagazine has won the Pacemaker Award and Online Pacemaker Award from the Associated Collegiate Press and Newspaper Association of America, as well as Silver and Gold Crown awards from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and Best Website from the Illinois College Press Association.

Straczynski is a long-time participant in Usenet and other early computer networks, interacting with fans through various online forums ( including GEnie, CompuServe, and America Online ) since 1984.

It was bought by America Online on June 1, 1995 and sold to Excite on April 1, 1997.

Netscape became a part of America Online, the Walt Disney Company launched Go. com, IBM and others launched Prodigy, and Excite and @ Home became a part of AT & T during the late 1990s.

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

Early warning signs began to surface in 1996, when Eric Harris first created a private website on America Online.

WorldCom then retained the CompuServe Network Services Division, sold its online service to America Online, and received AOL's network division, ANS.

The Tribune has been a leader on the Internet, acquiring 10 percent of America Online in the early 1990s, then launching such web sites as Chicagotribune. com ( 1995 ), Metromix. com ( 1996 ), ChicagoSports. com ( 1999 ), ChicagoBreakingNews. com ( 2008 ), and ChicagoNow. com ( 2009 ).

* Quack. com ( acquired by America Online )

America Online –

* Elwood Edwards-Voice of America Online " You've Got Mail "

* Steve Case, co-founder and former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online

* Jim Kimsey, co-founder, CEO, and first chairman of America Online

* Burt, A. L. The United States, Great Britain and British North America from the Revolution to the Establishment of Peace after the War of 1812, 1940 Online Edition.

The paper's paid content is available free, on a limited basis, to America Online subscribers, and through the free Congoo Netpass.

Nullsoft was sold to America Online on June 1, 1999, and thereafter existed as a subsidiary of America Online.

At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??

This is a problem to be solved not by America alone, but also by every nation cherishing the same ideals and in position to provide help.

The Miss Rhode Island Pageant is sponsored by the Rhode Island Junior Chamber of Commerce as a part of the nation-wide search for the typical American girl -- a Miss America from Rhode Island.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of July 3, 1952 ( 66 Stat. 328 ) as amended ( 42 U.S.C. 1952-1958 ), is further amended to read as follows: Section 1.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to make or cause to be made a study covering -- ( 1 )

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to establish and maintain a program of stabilization payments to small domestic producers of lead and zinc ores and concentrates in order to stabilize the mining of lead and zinc by small domestic producers on public, Indian, and other lands as provided in this Act.

The Symposium, which was jointly sponsored by the American Institute of Physics, the Instrument Society of America, and the National Bureau of Standards, attracted nearly one thousand registrants, including many from abroad.

The two Governments agree that the rupees accruing to the Government of the United States of America as a consequence of sales made pursuant to this Agreement will be used by the Government of the United States of America, in such manner and order of priority as the Government of the United States of America shall determine, for the following purposes in the amounts shown: ( A )

In the event that agreement is not reached on the use of the rupees for grant or loan purposes within six years from the date of this Agreement, the Government of the United States of America may use the local currency for any purposes authorized by Section 104 of the Act.

The deposit of rupees to the account of the Government of the United States of America in payment for the commodities and for ocean transportation costs financed by the Government of the United States of America ( except excess costs resulting from the requirement that United States flag vessels be used ) shall be made at the rate of exchange for United States dollars generally applicable to import transactions ( excluding imports granted a preferential rate ) in effect on the dates of dollar disbursement by United States banks, or by the Government of the United States of America, as provided in the purchase authorizations.

The Government of India agrees that it will take all possible measures to prevent the resale or transshipment to other countries or the use for other than domestic purposes ( except where such resale, transshipment or use is specifically approved by the Government of the United States of America ), of the surplus agricultural commodities purchased pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, and to assure that the purchase of such commodities does not result in increased availability of these or like commodities for export from India.

In the event the rupees set aside for loans under Section 104 ( E ) of the Act are not advanced within six years from the date of this Agreement because the Export-Import Bank of Washington has not approved loans or because proposed loans have not been mutually agreeable to the Export-Import Bank of Washington and the Department of Economic Affairs of the Government of India, the Government of the United States of America may use the rupees for any purpose authorized by Section 104 of the Act.

The Government of India further agrees in cooperation with the Government of the United States, to coordinate the use of grant and loan funds provided for in paragraphs 1 ( B ) and 1 ( C ) of Article 2, with such direct dollar assistance as may be made available by the Government of the United States of America, so that both sources of financing may be channeled to specific and clearly identifiable economic development programs and projects.

Incapable of self-delusion, the Founding Fathers found the crisis of their time to be equally grave, and yet they had confidence that America would surmount it and that a republic of free peoples would prosper and serve as an example to a world aching for liberty.

The consciousness it mirrors may have come earlier to Europe than to America, but it is the consciousness that most `` mature '' societies arrive at when their successes in technological and economic systematization propel them into a time of examining the not-strictly-practical ends of culture.

He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1,, evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and political life of America.

Such performance is a great tribute to American scientists and engineers, who in the past five years have had to telescope time and technology to develop these long-range ballistic missiles, where America had none before.

About that time he began reading Mr. America and Muscle Builder and he learned of the famous Weider way to fast weight gaining.

Hans' student days were at a time when Europe was in a new intellectual ferment following the revolutions in America and in France, Germany and Italy were rising from divisive nationalisms and a strong wave of intellectual awareness was sweeping the Continent.

At one time it was the ambition of every saxophone player in every high school band in America to blow like Bird.

This time he turned westward, to the middle Atlantic coast of North America.

It is an understandable paradox that most American history and most American literature is today written from an essentially egocentric and isolationistic point of view at the very time America is spreading her dominion over palm and pine.

The President and his advisers felt that the time might have come to warn Premier Khrushchev against a grave miscalculation in areas such as Berlin, Iran or Latin America from which there would be no turning back.

At that time, the poem was titled America for publication.

In 1787 a bishop of Nova Scotia was appointed with a jurisdiction over all of British North America ; in time several more colleagues were appointed to other cities in present-day Canada.

In some expressions it retains this pan-American sense, but its usage has evolved over time and, for various historical reasons, the word came to denote people or things specifically from the United States of America.

* 1962 – Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become " the most trusted man in America ".

A review of major longitudinal studies in North America found that a moderate number of patients with schizophrenia were seen to recover over time from their symptoms, raising the possibility that some patients may not require maintenance medication.

The software, maintained by AOL, Inc., at one time had the largest share of the instant messaging market in North America, especially in the United States ( with 52 % of the total reported as of 2006 ).

At the time of its formation BSC comprised around 90 percent of the UK's steelmaking capacity, had around 268, 500 employees and around 200 wholly or partly owned subsidiaries based in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Africa, South Asia, and South America.

During the early 20th century in America, gambling became outlawed and banned by state legislation and social reformers of the time.

Bernard Bailyn's classic The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution ( 1967 ) notes that a similar phenomenon could be found in America during the time preceding the American Revolution.

This has been proved with respect to North America from the position and distribution of the first beds of the Silurian-those of the Potsdam epoch-and this will probably prove to the case in Primordial time with the other continents also ".

For the first time in nearly a century, Conservative Judaism is no longer the largest denomination in America.

The system remained in place in most areas of Spanish America up to the time independence was achieved from Spain.

In this he found sympathy with the rapidly emerging Restoration Movement in the United States of America at the time.

The third pandemic erupted in 1839, persisted until 1856, extended to North Africa, and reached South America, for the first time specifically infringing upon Brazil.

She was at one time called the " most dangerous woman in America ," due to her free-love idealism and outspoken nature.