Comments on: AOL Cuts 2,000 Employees http://www.digitaltrends.com/lifestyle/aol-cuts-2000-employees/ Digital Trends is your home for technology news, CE product reviews, mobile app reviews and daily videos. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Yankee November http://www.digitaltrends.com/lifestyle/aol-cuts-2000-employees/#comment-55173 Yankee November Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:56:47 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com#comment-55173 AOL was the launch pad for a lot of us who're older than dirt. <br /> Hell, I go back to Steve Case, the roaring 90s. <br /> <br /> I mean, who, beyond age 50, knew dick about computers?<br /> AOL did it up right.<br /> <br /> Thanks for the service. <br /> (take care of your now unemployed employees)<br /> <br /> A Marine Vietnam Veteran <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> AOL was the launch pad for a lot of us who're older than dirt.
Hell, I go back to Steve Case, the roaring 90s.

I mean, who, beyond age 50, knew dick about computers?
AOL did it up right.

Thanks for the service.
(take care of your now unemployed employees)

A Marine Vietnam Veteran

]]> By: Jack http://www.digitaltrends.com/lifestyle/aol-cuts-2000-employees/#comment-55172 Jack Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:28:06 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com#comment-55172 I forsee this to be the overall decline of what was once was a great brand. We can thank AOL for getting a lot of us our first email address or internet experience, but that's about all. Once people became less AOL dependent, and learned about all the other great services that don't come packaged nicely in a free CD, they made the change. What hurt AOL is how difficult mnaking that change was, therefore confirming the desire to leave...and never returning. Now having an AOL address is something to generally smirk at, and can self label you as "computer illiterate" I forsee this to be the overall decline of what was once was a great brand. We can thank AOL for getting a lot of us our first email address or internet experience, but that's about all. Once people became less AOL dependent, and learned about all the other great services that don't come packaged nicely in a free CD, they made the change. What hurt AOL is how difficult mnaking that change was, therefore confirming the desire to leave…and never returning. Now having an AOL address is something to generally smirk at, and can self label you as “computer illiterate”

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