AMERICA ON-LINE, INC.
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(AOL) A US on-line service providerbased in Vienna, Virginia, USA. AOL claims to be the largestand fastest growing provider of on-line services in the world,with the most active subscriber base. AOL offers its threemillion subscribers electronic mail, interactive newspapersand magazines, conferencing, software libraries, computingsupport, and on-line classes.In October 1994 AOL made Internet FTP available to itsmembers and in May 1995, full Internet access includingWorld-Wide Web.AOL's main competitors are Prodigy and Compuserve. (http://aol.com/).
By Denis Howe
Word of the day
basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).