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100 Objects #22: AOL Disc
How one disc successfully introduced America to the internet.
In 1998, the recording industry was thriving. But the company pressing more compact discs than anyone else in America wasn't a record label鈥t was an internet company: America Online. The AOL Disc was a marketing coup 鈥� hugely successful. It鈥檚 not an overstatement to say that it鈥檚 the campaign that introduced America to the internet. Because of how well it worked, for a while the Internet was AOL. And then鈥� it felt like AOL just disappeared. So what happened? Alex Goldman (Reply All, Hyperfixed) finds out.
Host: Roman Mars
Producers: Priscilla Alabi, Brenna Daldorph, Isaac Fisher, Ellie Lightfoot
EPs: Annie Brown, Courtney Harrell, Kathy Tu
