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4 AOL features from the 90s that are big in 2025
From messaging apps to social media homepages, the much-maligned America Online is the internet OG.
Second: A wave of nostalgia for everything 1990s, from the dial-up sound to the unrealistically spam-free romcom You've Got Mail to the ubiquitous CDs to the formerly AOL-owned CompuServe homepage(which, amazingly, still carries today's news in soothing low-image form). AIM's skill at routing messages around blocked ports made it the bane of corporate IT departments, and a delight for plugged-in workers who needed to talk quickly. There was AOL Hometown, a GeoCities-style place for building websites without HTML knowledge; with its inventory of user interests it had started to look a little like MySpace, or LinkedIn, by the time it shuttered in 2009.
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