'''AOL''' stands for "America OnLine", a leading commercial provider of email accounts and access to the [[internet]]. It merged with [[New York City]] based conglomerate [[Time Warner]] in 2001,<ref>https://money.cnn.com/2009/05/28/technology/timewarner_aol/</ref> and in the past few years, its business model has increasing shifted to an advertising-supported one, serving ads both on their own sites and to third-party sites via their [http://www.platform-a.com/ Platform-A] distribution system. | '''AOL''' stands for "America OnLine", a leading commercial provider of email accounts and access to the [[internet]]. It merged with [[New York City]] based conglomerate [[Time Warner]] in 2001,<ref>https://money.cnn.com/2009/05/28/technology/timewarner_aol/</ref> and in the past few years, its business model has increasing shifted to an advertising-supported one, serving ads both on their own sites and to third-party sites via their [http://www.platform-a.com/ Platform-A] distribution system. |