America Online

America Online (AOL) is a commercial on-line service provider based in Vienna, Virginia. AOL claims to be the fastest growing provider of on-line services. AOL offers electronic mail, interactive news, software archives, multi-user conferencing, and technical support. AOL has added full Internet access to its list of services.

AOL's main competitors are Prodigy and CompuServe.

URLs:

AOL's Internet services include:

an FTP server

Where connection software can be obtained.

a Web Page

AOL's front door on the Internet

the WebCrawler WWW search tool

One of the many Internet search tools, this one was bought by AOL in 1995.

W3E References:

CompuServe

Prodigy

Print References:

• America Online Discovered. by Janet Endrijonas. Charles River Media. 1996. (ISBN 1-886801-29-0)

Detail:

For more details on AOL, please visit one of the three AOL URLs listed above.