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They had a 10 year or so golden opportunity to pivot and try different models backed by dial-up revenue.

I'd say that they failed

Oddly enough, they're still a company worth roughly $2.17 billion. I'd certainly be happy with that failure.

Me too--even with 170K at this point in my life, but let's look at where AOL was and the chances they had.

How do you define failure?

What do they have going for the next 1-5-10 years? A few blogs?