America Online

America Online, or AOL for short, is a U.S.-based online service provider and Internet service provider that is owned by Time Warner. Based in Dulles, Virginia, a community in Loudoun County, Virginia, with regional headquarters installations in many cities around the world, it is by far the most successful proprietary online service, with more than 32 million subscribers at one point in the US, Canada, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Latin America (declared bankrupt in 2004), and Japan. In early 2005, AOL Hong Kong stopped its service.

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Online service provider - Internet service provider - Time Warner - Dulles - Virginia - Loudoun County, Virginia - US - Canada - Germany - France - United Kingdom - Latin America - Japan - 2005 - Hong Kong

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For many Americans through the mid 1990s, AOL was the Internet, but the rise of open access to the Internet has shrunk its user base and left questions about its future.

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In 2000 AOL and Time Warner announced plans to merge, and the deal was approved by the Federal Trade Commission on January 11 2001. See Time Warner for information on the merger and operations since then.

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2000 - Time Warner - Federal Trade Commission - January 11 - 2001

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