This is likely exaggeration. https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/14/media/meta-layoffs-reliable-sources/index.html
Hey AOL folks, please help us here. What perks do you guys get? Examples at yahoo are: free breakfast, lunch and dinner, free phone + unlimited plan, free gym, free juice all day bar and more. Thanks.
Back in the day aol was ubiquitous for internet users. Nowadays you have companies that are supposedly next gen like discord or slack that essentially do the same thing that aol did via chatrooms and aim. These days some of you dont even know what aol is. Its still around but seen as a boomer too
Curious if anyone on Blind worked on AOL Instant Messenger back in the day? What was that like? TC: None
Been using compuserve, got some CDs in the mail for AOL, should i switch?
They had the world at their feet 20 years ago, AOL was synonymous with the internet at aome point. How did they fail so hard?
Never seen a downfall of a big tech company like this before. TC:500K
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/14/media/meta-layoffs-reliable-sources/index.html The social destruction that has brought by FB, Instagram to society and to teenagers in particular, and now with destruction of its employees, is end in sight? #layoffs #apple
Hi AOLers, What should Yahoos know about the company they are about to join?
I keep getting spam iMessages sent from an AOL email address. How do I report this person so AOL stops letting them create accounts?
Will Tesla hit 1k$/share or go the way of AOL?
I use an AOL email and people keep encouraging me to change it. But I have had my email for so long, changing it would be a hassle. I like my email.
What do you guys think about oath: which is AOL + Yahoo! ?
https://www.fiercecable.com/cable/go90-gets-officially-folded-into-oath-multi-platform-agenda-brand-set-to-fade-away?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTnpFMVptSmxOV05sTWpNeiIsInQiOiJpK1BMVTA5YVdFTFBcL3krK0RVRkhPdFBwQ3puT1U1aWdwanFnRktyT2d3RDZ0ejBGNDlHdXVPUzdZbVhJRXc0M1ZPanRmZFFObVpZNkVCZ2k5NDErM2YzQmxmVlFLblFRTkw0XC9
And Uber is webvan.com of 199x Thoughts?
Who will buy yahoo?
Join the team! Jobs are posted here: https://oath.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/careers
TC 280
Putting my analytical cap on and trying to find where the true Gold (Monetization) of AI is going to come from. There has to be a true commercial product utilizing AI that can be used as a moat for companies to one day rise to FAANG levels. Most startup companies seem to be focused on LLMs primaril
Seems like a lot of the chat apps on the phones are just reinventing the wheel based off stuff that's already in the desktop chat apps 30 years ago. And remember CompuServe?
Still exists https://decisiondata.org/internet/what-is-dial-up-internet/
Are Yahoo people worried? https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22416854/aol-yahoo-sale-apollo-venetian-hotel-verizon
Like Yahoo or AOL after they lost their mojo. Sooner or later Comcast, Verizon or AT&T will buy them.
AOL, Cisco, Yahoo, Microsoft, eBay?
News out that Verizon is laying off 7% of employees from Oath / yahoo & AOL. :(
Die as in becoming worth less than Yahoo / aol
Fb & Google the new Yahoo , Amazon the new GE Netflix is the new AOL Time to work for some disruptive startups. #tech
Anyone else sad to see AOL Instant Messenger officially go away?
Possible for this to be different than Verizon/yahoo/aol? Or same fate? Why?
Feels like I am using an aol account. Do you use yahoo mail?