This post is a basic timeline of AOL. There are 23 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia
- William von Meister founds Control Video Corporation (1983)
- GameLine for Atari 2600 (1983)
- Quantum Link (1985)
- AppleLink (1988)
- PC Link (1988)
- Renamed to AOL (1989)
- AOL for DOS (1991)
- Steve Case becomes CEO (1991)
- AOL joins Usenet (1993)
- WebCrawler is acquired (1995)
- WebCrawler is sold to Excite (1996)
- NetFind (AOL Search) (1997)
- AOL Instant Messenger (1997)
- Netscape is acquired (1999)
- MapQuest is acquired (1999)
- Merges with Time Warner (2000)
- Tim Armstrong becomes CEO (2009)
- Time Warner announces AOL spin-off (2009)
- Publicly traded (2009)
- TechCrunch is acquired (2010)
- Huffington Post is acquired (2011)
- Verizon acquires AOL for $4.4 billion (2015)
- Huffington Post sold to BuzzFeed (2020)
