Steve Case finally 'gecased' - in the news he was called one of the pioneers of the Internet. Nonsense. When Jon Postel died, there was barely any news coverage - and that was a real pioneer of the Internet. Case is just one of the big rip-off artists, and not even the first one at that. AOL refused for a long time to offer users even halfway direct Internet access. Everything was nicely filtered and prepared through the silly colorful happy-world interface. Dumb software for dumb customers (who, according to their own advertising, are too stupid to even program a video recorder). And to this day, AOL's access software and access structure is one of the most absurd things you can have in the field of access providers. Just look at their DSL access technology: PPP over AOL over PPP over Ethernet ...
Found at Dotcomtod.