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AOL began in 1983, as a short-lived venture called Control Video Corporation (CVC), founded by William von Meister.Its sole product was an online service called GameLine for the Atari 2600 video game console, after von Meister's idea of buying music on demand was rejected by Warner Bros. [8] Subscribers bought a modem from the company for $49.95 and paid a one-time $15 setup fee.
A city wiki or local wiki is a wiki used as a knowledge base and social network for a specific geographical locale. [50] [51] [52] The term city wiki is sometimes also used for wikis that cover not just a city, but a small town or an entire region. Such a wiki contains information about specific instances of things, ideas, people and places.
William Robinson Brown (January 17, 1875 – August 4, 1955) was a corporate officer of the Brown Company and a breeder of Arabian horses.He advocated for sustainable forest management practices and his innovations became industry standards.
The Stand is a post-apocalyptic dark fantasy novel written by American author Stephen King and first published in 1978 by Doubleday.The plot centers on a deadly pandemic of weaponized influenza and its aftermath, in which some of the few surviving humans gather into factions that are each led by a personification of either good or evil and seem fated to clash with each other.
A digital newsstand is a digital distribution platform for downloadable newspapers, magazines and journals. Examples include (but are not limited to) Apple's Newsstand and Google Play Newsstand – both of which have been discontinued – Amazon Kindle Newsstand [1] and Magzter.
A massively multiplayer online sports game is a title where players can compete in some of the more traditional major league sports, such as football (soccer), basketball, baseball, hockey, golf or American football. According to GameSpot, Baseball Mogul Online was "the world's first massively multiplayer online sports game". [16]
The FIDO ("Fast IDentity Online") Alliance is an open industry association launched in February 2013 whose stated mission is to develop and promote authentication standards that "help reduce the world’s over-reliance on passwords". [1]
March 11, 2013: Online Resources Corporation was acquired. [22] November 5, 2013:The purchase of Official Payments Holdings, [23] a seller of electronic bill payment technology that processed about 20 million payments, worth more than $9 billion, annually, was completed. [24] July 21, 2014: An agreement was announced to acquire Retail Decisions ...