About Time

By Liam Day
May 28th, 2009

After ten long years, Time Warner has finally made the decision to kick AOL to the curb. All I can say is about time. The best analogy I can come up with is if Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra lasted 10 years instead of the two weeks they did.

At its height, AOL’s dial up served roughly 26 million customers. I believe that number is now somewhere around 6 million.

In a truly frightening display of the speed with which Schumpeter’s creative destruction works in the digital age, who would have guessed that dial up internet service would go the way of the buggy so quickly?