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Originally Posted by EroticySteve
Did they buy a company that was around in 1985? If so they could probably claim that too.
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Actually they just renamed the company - in 1983 the company was losing its ass trying to sell monthly memberships for the Atari game system - Steve Case was brought up to be the CEO and he changed it to Q-Link - the software was given away free with every Commodore 64 and 128 back then - it was just a big BBS - then in 1989 they started AOL for Apple and Macs, followed by something called Geoworks for DOS based systems - it was a graphical interface that sucked but it was the only real attempt at "windows" back then - and in 1991 they changed their name to AOL.
As far as the net - we had the internet back in the 80s - we just had text based interfaces for email and lookups - earlier than that it was all college and military based in the US - going way back to 1969 when there were 4 host computers at universities in the US - and 21 other computers hooked up by phone lines
It grew from that - the whole idea was to set up a command and control system when Eisenhower reacted to Russias launch of Sputnik - but it became more than just a military project and ended up in the US colleges - Stanford, UCLA, MIT and a few others