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.
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.