Wow! (style WOW! ) is an online service run by CompuServe in 1996 and early 1997. Beginning in March 1996, was originally regarded as a better version of CompuServe's software, but was later announced that it will become a user-friendly, "family" online service and is widely advertised on such TV. Wow! is the first Internet service offered at "unlimited" monthly rates ($ 17.95) and stands out for its brightly colored pages, looking like hand drawn.
The first release of the program was undermined by software bugs, with lots of random shutdown of services and the loss of email messages. This service develops a small fan base, but is very loyal. However, this was not enough, and the service closed on January 31, 1997.
This is not the end of the Wow problem. Some class action lawsuits filed, claiming that WOW! sold to shareholders with misinformation and misleading information.
The CompuServe model always charges customers based on hourly usage charges. This model is no longer competitive due to the new unlimited program provided by AOL and growing local ISPs. Additionally, CompuServe can not offer a customized username. The customer has a long number with a comma (or period if it sends it to another member instead of Wow! CompuServe) in the middle as their e-mail address. Wow! should fix that problem and make the company competitive with AOL.
The Wow! The Information Service should start with the release of Microsoft Windows 95 SR2. This version of Windows will be the first to include Internet Explorer. Knowing that their browser bundling will be considered anti-competitive, Microsoft also plans to bundle installers for some major ISPs into Windows. CompuServe realizes that this is a great opportunity to earn some new Wow! users, but the software is not ready for distribution yet.
The company decided that the only way to be ready was a paid beta test. IT contractor companies are consulted and beta testers are brought to Wow! Headquarter. Each beta tester will get free WOW for six months! service and paid $ 100/week, plus $ 10 per bug they found. Beta testers who find the most bugs will be given a "bounty bug" of $ 2000. Ultimately, beta testers are not impressed with the payment, and very few bugs are actually fixed.
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AOL retains the wow.com domain name since it acquired CompuServe. It makes it inactive from shutdown of Wow! until 2007.
In mid-2007, AOL considered moving its Digg-style news aggregator (later hosted on Netscape.com) to wow.com, before finally moving it to Propeller.com. Toward the end of the year, AOL is reportedly working on a domain for social networking services that focuses on the popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft , and for that it is beginning to redirect the domain to the World of Warcraft blog > hosted AOL, WoW Insider . The blog, now with various social improvements, officially moved to WoW.com on May 20, 2009.
A little over a year after the relaunch, in October 2010, the blog resumed its previous name as WoW Insider and moved to a subdomain of the Joystiq sister blog. The wow.com domain is simultaneously relaunched as a site site similar to Groupon. However, the site is also short-lived, closed at the end of 2011. Throughout 2012, the domain is redirected to another AOL site, Games.com.
Since February 2013, the domain has served as a bare-bones alternative to AOL search engine, which itself is supported by Google Search. By 2015, a subdomain from wow.com (content.wow.com) begins to post various articles from other AOL-owned websites, apparently for search engine optimization purposes. Beginning in February 2015 wow.com, redirecting to a web portal based on the America Online homepage www.AOL.com.
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