CompuServe buys America Online

PsihoKekec

Swashbuckling Accountant
In 1991 CompuServe offered to buy out AOL which was struggling ever since it started as Control Video. The CEO Jim Kimsey was all for accepting the offer and washing his hands on the most difficult job he ever had (he served two combat tours in Vietnam as a ranger officer), but his protege Steve Case convinced him to trudge on.

Half a year later the company went public and was suddenly awash in money for it's expansion.

How would the story of internet in USA develop if AOL was absorbed by CompuServe?
 

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