Word: steve
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Steve and Eydie and Don-Music Hall...
...Steve and Eydle and Don-Music Hall...
...best part of 15 years now, Steve Case has nurtured a vision. Back in the days when modems creaked along at 300 bits a second, when it took half an hour to download a small black-and-white photo and when most Americans were obsessing over CB radios, Case imagined a world where ordinary folk, like the ones he grew up with in Hawaii, would find real utility in connected computers...
...last week, Steve. On Monday, AOL astonished the computer and media world with the news that it will swallow CompuServe, the nation's oldest online service, and its 2.6 million members. As part of the deal, AOL sealed a long-term pact with WorldCom, a telephone company based in Jackson, Miss., with scads of capacity, that will help AOL lock in access to phone lines at low rates for the next five years--and probably boost profits. In the three-way agreement, WorldCom bought CompuServe and then handed AOL the online company's 2.6 million subscribers in exchange...
...times as many as its nearest competitor, the Microsoft Network. But while the news was big, AOL had no idea the coup would so clearly signal that the company had finally arrived. As congratulatory calls poured in, AOL employees shared a moment of collective corporate shock: "Well, I guess Steve was right...