The woman in question was Susan Dell, a billionaire, philanthropist, and co-founder and chair of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation.
Susan and her billionaire husband, Michael Dell, had pledged $6.25 billion to fund investment accounts for at least 25 million American children.
Looks like AOL is stealing this from Bored Panda, please link to the original source or we’ll have to remove it.
Is…uh… bored panda a legitimate news source now? they probably stole it from MSN who stole from someone else.
Quite possibly, but still better than AOL. LOL.
to be fair, I didn’t realize AOL still existed…
I wonder if they’d send me a disk if I asked. I could use a frisbee.
You and me both! I still remember the Time Warner thing… “AOL buys Time Warner…”
“Oh, that HAS to be a mistake, you mean the other way around.”
“No no…”
And THEN:
https://thebahnsengroup.com/dividend-cafe/what-to-learn-from-the-worst-business-deal-in-history-july-18-2025/
my fond AOL moment was the look on my grandma’s face when I explained why she couldn’t go to that one website she was told to go to by somebody in her church. the “What do you mean this isn’t the internet! I have EMAIL! I have the WEATHER. And the NEWS”…
(AOL was originally not actually an ISP, they were an online service provider that provided access to their own services/network.)
Yeah, when the competition was other closed systems like Compuserve and Prodigy.