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America On-Line, Inc.
     
         (AOL) A US on-line service provider
        based in Vienna, Virginia, USA.  AOL claims to be the largest
        and fastest growing provider of on-line services in the world,
        with the most active subscriber base.  AOL offers its three
        million subscribers {electronic mail}, interactive newspapers
        and magazines, conferencing, software libraries, computing
        support, and on-line classes.
     
        In October 1994 AOL made {Internet} {FTP} available to its
        members and in May 1995, full Internet access including
        {World-Wide Web}.
     
        AOL's main competitors are {Prodigy} and {Compuserve}.
     
        {Home (http://www.aol.com/)}.
     
        (1997-08-26)