America On-Line, Inc.




<company, communications> (AOL) A US on-line service provider based in Vienna, Virginia, USA.

AOL claims to be the largest and fastest growing provider of on-line services in the world, with the most active subscriber base.

AOL offers its three million subscribers electronic mail, interactive newspapers and magazines, conferencing, software libraries, computing support, and on-line classes.

In October 1994 AOL made Internet FTP available to its members and in May 1995, full Internet access including World-Wide Web.

AOL's main competitors are Prodigy and Compuserve.

Home (http://www.aol.com/).



< Previous Terms Terms Containing America On-Line, Inc. Next Terms >
American National Standards Institute
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
American Telephone and Telegraph, Inc.
American Wire Gauge
America's Multimedia Online
AMI
Amiga
Amiga E
Aminet