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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...late 1996 fiasco in which customers couldn't access the overburdened servers, the company has been rocketing from one success to another. The number of AOL zillionaires has multiplied with each upward ratchet of the stock price, and the atmosphere in Dulles sometimes feels like it's ready to combust. The unnamed Time Warner executive who told the New York Times that merging the cultures would be easy because the AOL people are laid-back "latte drinkers" would do well to re-examine what's in those cups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AOL-Time Warner Merger: Happily Ever After? | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

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