AOL renames to..... AOL

Post by **Eraser** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:06 am

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=1986

During an interview at the Web 2.0 conference, AOL CEO Jonathan Miller said that AOL was changing its official name from America Online to "AOL," solving the problem of taking the brand internationally without offending those countries that don't want to have an America Online in their midst.

It's a bit stupid that a country would be offended by the "America" part.
Without that argument, I can still see why AOL would do it though. From a business point of view, it's not that strange to remove "america" from your name if you're going for a global market.

Post by **MKJ** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:17 am

they think the rest of the world is as easily offended as the US

Post by **4days** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:17 pm

so if it's just the word 'aol' now, how do you pronounce it? 'whal', or maybe with that silly american long vowel thing?

Post by **raw** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:19 pm

I think there's a hidden G in the pronunciation. It should be pronounced...

GAY-OL

Post by **Transient** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:27 pm

Or AOHell.

Post by **mik0rs** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:32 pm

Or "Idiots That Make Shitty Software That Causes No End Of Fucking Bother, The Cunts"

Post by **Grudge** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 1:47 pm

aolol

Post by **glossy** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 1:57 pm

*insert play on the 'aol' name*

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 5:07 pm

Post by **mik0rs** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:03 pm

I get it... but the A still fucking stands for "America", even if not officially. If they were going to go all politically correct they should have just changed the name instead. It is a bit retarded that it's called AOL outside of America anyway though. All that said, AOL had the retarded market all sewn up before this anyway.

Post by **Geebs** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:17 pm

Smacks of the whole "why did they change it to KFC" lollercoaster.

Post by **seremtan** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:22 pm

United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland

UK Plc

- to avoid offending all the people we've bombed and/or ethnically cleansed

Post by **losCHUNK** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:50 pm

lol, if memph had a nuke he'd be aiming for america because of AOL

and it aint because of the name

Post by **John^Rocker** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:19 am

aol helped me to own

Post by **plained** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:21 am

i'll take two aol to go

Post by **John^Rocker** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:23 am

plained wrote:i'll take two aol to go

double the ownage