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.
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.