America Online is the largest Internet provider in the world, but it didn't become one without a fight. Originally a closed-in, proprietary online service, it was pried open by the public's fascination with the global network. For all of the company's past glory, it is now little more than a big communications company.
AOL can't deliver e-mail reliably -- and now they own Netscape? Several technology reporters are focussing on AOL's "credibility gap". They're the only nationwide service to go off-line for 19 hours -- and to do it again repeatedly, seemingly on a monthly basis. Now they hold the fate of a crucial piece of internet software.
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The Darwin Awards traditionally commemorate those who improve the gene pool by accidentally killing themselves in an extraordinarily stupid way. The stupidity displayed by the participants in the following tales stops short of the ultimate sacrifice. Nevertheless, we salute the spirit and innovation of their misadventures.
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