Very Rare AOL Software for the Mac v. 2.5 on two 800K Floppy Disks
Rare Software has never been installed.

Prodigy Mac 2.1

A true collectors item.

 

Rare AOL Software for the Mac

AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City. It is a brand marketed by the current incarnation of Yahoo Inc.

The service traces its history to an online service known as PlayNET. PlayNET licensed its software to Quantum Link (Q-Link), who went online in November 1985. A new IBM PC client launched in 1988, eventually renamed as America Online in 1989. AOL grew to become the largest online service, displacing established players like CompuServe and The Source. By 1995, AOL had about three million active users.

AOL was one of the early pioneers of the Internet in the mid-1990s, and the most recognized brand on the web in the United States. It originally provided a dial-up service to millions of Americans, as well as providing a web portal, e-mail, instant messaging and later a web browser following its purchase of Netscape. In 2001, at the height of its popularity, it purchased the media conglomerate Time Warner in the largest merger in U.S. history. AOL rapidly shrank thereafter, partly due to the decline of dial-up and rise of broadband. AOL was eventually spun off from Time Warner in 2009, with Tim Armstrong appointed the new CEO. Under his leadership, the company invested in media brands and advertising technologies.

On June 23, 2015, AOL was acquired by Verizon Communications for $4.4 billion. On May 3, 2021, Verizon announced it would sell Yahoo and AOL to private equity firm Apollo Global Management for $5 billion.

 

 DISK TRANSFER SERVICE: (OPTIONAL) If you are the winner of the auction and would like the software also on a 1.4 MB disk (so as to allow this software to run on a slightly newer Mac such as a 1998 iMac that may not be able to read 400K/800K disks), I am offering a disk transfer service to transfer this software to a 1.44 MB Floppy so your newer computer can read the media. I make no guarantees that that the software will work perfectly on a Mac too new for its design, but will give you the option to try it. The cost of this transfer service is $3.00 per 1.4 MB floppy disk used.  This is an optional fee and you will get both formats: the original low density disks that came as new plus the 1.4 MB copy.

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