AOL’s First Strike Capability

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Posted on:: January 31st, 2003

Marc Abrahams, the editor of the actually funny magazine, Annals of Improbable Research and creator of the Ig Nobel Awards, in an email writes:

>AOL lost $99 billion. That’s over $300 for
>every person in the country!

Uh, oh. Now THEY might decide the best thing to do is go start a war.

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aaron, on January 31st, 2003 at 4:59 pm Said:

Given that the $99 billion somewhat exceds the entire worth of the AOL/TIme Warner corporate empire, I am guessing that figure is intended as hyperbole?

David Weinberger, on January 31st, 2003 at 6:28 pm Said:

Me, hyperbolic??????!!!!!!!!

Actually, $99B is the actual number. Lots of sources on this, including:

http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/030130/markets_stocks_adrs_1.html