Answer: AOL
AOL is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 414 times.
Referring Clues:
- Prodigy competitor, for short
 - Cyberspace abbr.
 - Chat room inits.
 - Netcom competitor
 - Part of some E-mail addresses
 - "You've got mail" co.
 - Prodigy alternative, for short
 - Big letters in cyberspace
 - Company founded by Steve Case
 - Yahoo! competitor
 - Company in a 2000 merger
 - Chatroom offerer
 - Part of many e-mail addresses
 - Netscape purchaser
 - CompuServe is part of it
 - Co. in a 2001 merger
 - Popular I.S.P.
 - Big inits. on the Net
 - One way to the WWW
 - Earthlink competitor
 - It merged with Time Warner
 - Co. in a big 2001 merger
 - Popular ISP
 - See 4-Down
 - Trio after @, perhaps
 - Partner in a big 2001 merger
 - Media inits. since 1989
 - Big name in ISP's
 - MSN competitor
 - Co. that merged with Time Warner
 - Netscape's owner
 - Earthlink alternative
 - Modern-day corp. giant with a 1992 I.P.O.
 - Co. with a triangular logo
 - Big mail deliverer
 - Time Warner merger partner
 - Co. that offers I.M.'s
 - Time Warner company
 - Co. that created the term "Buddy List"
 - I.S.P. of note
 - Gmail alternative
 - Part of AIM
 - Name for Quantum Computer Services since '89
 - Popular portal
 - MSN rival
 - Co. in a 2001 merger with Time Warner
 - Alternative to Gmail
 - Choice for chat
 - @ follower, sometimes
 - Netscape acquirer
 - Comcast alternative
 - Co. offering a Buddy List
 - Internet access co.
 - "You've Got Mail" company, for short
 - Steve Case's ISP
 - Instant Message offerer
 - Cyberspace initials
 - Time Warner's partner
 - Company that merged with Time-Warner
 - It recently merged with Time Warner
 - Co. that merged with Netscape in '98
 - Company which just released Version 7.0
 - ISP with Instant Messages
 - Big name on the Internet
 - It alerts you with "You've got mail"
 - Big name on the Net
 - IM carrier
 - Internet letters
 - Mail letters?
 - NetZero alternative
 - Instant Messenger ISP
 - "You've Got Mail" ISP
 - ISP with Instant Messenger
 - Big initials on the Internet
 - Big letters on the Internet
 - Virginia-based E-giant
 - Company that mails out many CD-ROMs
 - Web giant
 - IM provider
 - Media company operated by Time Warner
 - Buyer of Time Warner
 - IM offerer
 - MSN alternative
 - Time Warner merger partner, in 2000
 - Letters in many e-mail addresses
 - Internet giant, briefly
 - Common letters after @
 - ISP with keywords
 - Big screen letters
 - ISP with chat rooms
 - Buddy List co.
 - Co. split off from Time Warner in 2009
 - I.M. provider
 - IM company
 - Company with a yellow stick figure mascot
 - Co. that acquired CompuServe
 - Co. featured in "You've Got Mail"
 - At sign follower in many e-mail addresses
 - Instant Messenger co.
 - Distributor of many CD-ROMs
 - Ubiquitous ISP
 - Rival of EarthLink
 - Yahoo! rival
 - ISP with a circle-in-a-triangle logo
 - Acquirer of Netscape in 1998
 - Letters after @, often
 - Company that owns MapQuest
 - Moviefone co.
 - Quantum Computer Services, today
 - Cyberspace letters
 - ___ Mail: online service
 - E-mail letters
 - Buddy Chat co.
 - Co. with Keywords
 - PeoplePC competitor
 - Server of many, briefly
 - Big ISP
 - Earthlink rival
 - Mailer of many a promotional CD
 - Major e-mail deliverer
 - Popular Web server
 - __ Radio
 - Va.-based Web giant
 - Some e-mail letters
 - Earthlink competitor, familiarly
 - Yahoo rival
 - Quantum Computer Services, since Oct. 1991
 - Time Warner partner
 - Gmail competitor
 - CompuServe buyer
 - Familiar ISP
 - Internet outfit, familiarly
 - Big Internet serv. provider
 - ''You've got mail'' co.
 - Buddy List letters
 - Time Warner div.
 - E-mail service, for short
 - ''You've got mail'' letters
 - Place for IMs
 - Major ISP
 - Time Warner buyer
 - Yahoo! alternative
 - E-mail provider
 - Popular Web portal
 - Time Warner spinoff of '09
 - Time Warner division
 - Co. based in Vienna
 - Company that merged with Time Warner
 - Time Warner purchaser
 - Gateway to a logon, for some
 - Letters on the Internet
 - Part of some e-mail addresses, briefly
 - Co. with connections
 - "You've got mail" letters
 - Co. famous for "You've got mail"
 - Company that bought Time Warner
 - Server of millions
 - Certain IM provider
 - Time-Warner merger
 - Co. that bought Time Warner
 - Pioneer in instant messaging
 - One way to the Web
 - Surfer's choice, briefly
 - Former Time-Warner co.
 - ISP featuring CBS Radio stations
 - Former Time Warner unit
 - It split from TimeWarner
 - Time Warner spin-off of 2009
 - Internet giant, for short
 - Internet giant
 - Letters that often follow @
 - Popular 50 Across
 - Web access co.
 - Inspiration for "You've Got Mail"
 - Co. with many keywords
 - Web browser provider
 - Company with an I.P.O. in both 1992 and 2009
 - Major Internet service provider, for short
 - Instant messaging pioneer
 - Well-known Internet letters
 - Huffington Post buyer in 2011
 - ___ Radio
 - Co. offering IMs
 - Steve Case started it: abbr.
 - 2001 merger name
 - E-giant with many buddies
 - Email letters
 - Former Time Warner partner
 - Company formerly linked to Time Warner
 - Hotmail alternative
 - Company in a 2011 merger with the Huffington Post
 - Owner of Moviefone
 - Email service provider
 - Letters in much e-mail
 - Time Warner spinoff
 - Instant-messaging pioneer
 - Pioneering Internet company
 - ISP founded by Steve Case
 - Moviefone owner
 - It bought the Huffington Post in March 2011
 - Company with Patch Media
 - Co. that owns Moviefone
 - It had its second IPO in '99
 - Co. that used to mail out tons of CDs
 - Giant in a 2000 merger
 - 2011 Huffington Post acquirer
 - Company with a lot of connections?
 - Internet company with a 2009 IPO
 - WWW giant
 - Co. that purchased the Huffington Post in 2011
 - 'You've got mail' co.
 - 'You've got mail' provider
 - 'You've got mail' biz
 - Comcast rival
 - It started as Quantum Computer Services
 - 'You've got mail' letters
 - 'You've Got Mail' abbr.
 - Giant in Internet service
 - ISP option
 - 'You've got mail!' ISP
 - ISP with IMs
 - NetZero rival
 - CD mailer of the early 2000s
 - ___ Mail
 - I.S.P. giant
 - "You've got mail!" letters
 - Passé email address
 - Popular Internet server
 - Steve Case co-founded it
 - "Huffington Post" owner
 - Engadget's co.
 - Tech company spun off from Time Warner
 - E-mail inits.
 - Patent seller in 2012 news
 - Sender of much e-mail
 - Famed ISP
 - Pioneering ISP
 - "You've got mail" Internet giant
 - "You've Got Mail" company
 - Comcast competitor
 - IM pioneer
 - Part of some email addresses
 - MapQuest owner
 - Patch Media owner
 - Co. that owns MapQuest
 - 2011 Huffington Post purchaser
 - Oft-ridiculed ISP
 - Alternative to Yahoo!
 - Co. that merged with Time Warner in 2000
 - NetZero competitor
 - Leading name in email
 - ISP giant
 - ISP that owns Moviefone
 - Common letters in an email address
 - Company with a "Running Man" symbol
 - Internet giant that owns MapQuest
 - Tech giant with the catchphrase "You've got mail"
 - Pt. of some email addresses
 - Big name in email
 - Longtime ISP
 - Part of many email addresses
 - MapQuest parent
 - ISP of note
 - Owner of The Huffington Post since 2011
 - Owner of the "Huffington Post" since 2011
 - Giant ISP
 - Letters that might follow @
 - 1998 purchaser of Netscape
 - Letters often seen after @
 - It began as Quantum Computer Services
 - Owner of the TechCrunch site
 - Steve Case's former company
 - What company owns MapQuest?
 - "You've got mail!" company
 - 2011 purchaser of the Huffington Post
 - Huffington Post parent co.
 - Chat room access provider (abbr.)
 - Web services giant
 - Internet provider (abbr.)
 - HuffPo's parent
 - Internet service (abbr.)
 - Letters in many email addresses
 - ISP choice
 - 'Buddy List' co.
 - Former Time Warner division
 - ISP biggie
 - Moviefone's owner
 - I.S.P. that bought CompuServe
 - 2000 MapQuest acquirer
 - Verizon purchase of 2015
 - Gmail rival
 - Verizon buy of 2015
 - Tech company that was the subject of a 1997 Time cover
 - Owner of MapQuest and Moviefone
 - Verizon subsidiary
 - Offerer of the first online courses (1988)
 - Service with a 1-Across
 - Alternative to 14-Across
 - Co. owned by Verizon
 - "You've got mail" rival of Yahoo!
 - 'You've got mail' ISP
 - 2015 Verizon acquisition
 - 2015 Verizon purchase
 - IM-offering ISP
 - Letters in some email addresses
 - "You've got mail" service
 - Net giant, briefly
 - Moviefone parent co.
 - Sister co. of Verizon Wireless
 - Internet inits.
 - 4 Down rival
 - The "A" of AIM
 - ISP that owns MapQuest
 - I.S.P. whose logo contains a period
 - Huffington Post owner
 - Huff Post owner
 - Big name in ISPs
 - Time Warner spinoff of 2009
 - "You've got mail" Web company
 - 1999 Moviefone acquirer
 - It had more than 10 million subscribers in the 1990s
 - UK web portal
 - Prodigy rival
 - 27-Across alternative
 - Co. acquired by Verizon in 2015
 - ___ Desktop for Windows
 - Parent co. of HuffPost
 - Verizon's ISP
 - "You've got mail" email service
 - Pioneer in email
 - Verizon acquisition of 2015
 - EarthLink or MSN rival
 - Internet messaging pioneer
 - Alternative to Hotmail
 - Onetime buyer of "Time"
 - Division of Verizon
 - Yahoo! sister company
 - Its IM was shut down in 2017
 - I.S.P. option
 - Dial-up pioneer
 - Early internet pioneer
 - HuffPo purchaser in 2011
 - HuffPost owner
 - Big sender of CDs in the 1990s
 - Sister company of Yahoo
 - Internet gateway since the '90s
 - Pioneering internet provider
 - Classic ISP ... or, with = properly placed, this puzzle's theme
 - Longtime Yahoo! competitor
 - Pioneer in I.M.'ing
 - Web portal since the '80s
 - Part of Verizon Media
 - Verizon ISP
 - Internet company that helped launch TMZ
 - ISP owned by Verizon
 - ___ Instant Messenger
 - '90s-'00s CD sender
 - Time Warner spun it off in 2009
 - Early internet company
 - 2015 Verizon buy
 - Web pioneer
 - Co. that bought Netscape in 1999
 - Internet pioneer
 - I.S.P. once called Quantum Computer Services
 - One of the pioneers of the internet
 - One of the former Big Three information services, along with CompuServe and Prodigy
 - Pioneering I.S.P.
 - Early internet co.
 - Trailblazing ISP
 - Early internet brand
 - Company with an iconic yellow Running Man logo
 - Big inits. in 1990s internet
 - Web portal owned by Verizon
 - Company that helped launch TMZ
 - Creator of the former messaging software AIM
 - Legacy I.S.P.
 - Email pioneer
 - I.S.P. alternative to 32-Down
 - ISP pioneer
 - Yahoo alternative
 - "Have ___ make my email stop" (Destiny's Child lyric)
 - Internet service provider whose name is now stylized with a period
 - Early internet ISP
 - Web portal co.
 - N.Y.C.-based pioneer in instant messaging
 - Verizon sale of 2021
 - "You've got mail!" I.S.P.
 - Early ISP
 - Early web portal
 - Co. once known as Quantum Computer Services
 - Old "You've got mail" sloganeer
 - Company that once mailed CDs containing free internet trials
 - Yahoo! Inc. brand
 - Early dial-up service provider
 - Classic ISP
 - Co. that offered ims
 - Company originally known as Control Video Corp.
 - I.M. innovator
 - '90s ISP
 - Half of an ill-fated 2001 merger
 - ISP marketed by Yahoo! Inc.
 - Company that purchased Time Warner in 2001
 - ISP that distributed an estimated 1 billion free trial CDs
 - Co. for whom Elwood Edwards voiced "You've got mail"
 - Company with a yellow stick-figure mascot known as the "Running Man"
 - Company that used to mail out free trial CDs
 - Early tech giant
 - Early internet provider
 - Longtime email provider
 - Internet co. once known for mailing CDs
 - Letters in "You've Got Mail"
 - Alternative to Yahoo Mail
 - Company that once offered "50 Free Hours" CDs
 - Internet dial-up pioneer
 
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 - USA Today - March 21, 2025
 - LA Times - February 16, 2025
 - New York Times - February 09, 2025
 
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