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Revision 5 . . November 7, 2001 7:32 pm by Gareth Owen [gave reasons for some anti-AOL feeling]
Revision 4 . . November 7, 2001 3:49 pm by Larry Sanger
  

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AOL were amongst the first service providers to give customers from outside academia and the military access to the internet. As such, they were primarily associated with the influx of new users, unversed in netiquette?, who came online
from 1993 onwards, and in some quarters such as Usenet, their name is synonymous with impolite and ignorant new users. They have found this (now largely undeserved) reputation difficult to shake.

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