AOL Time Warner Inc. 2000-Present

October 23, 2002
New AOL version 8.0 sets record with more than 5 million downloads by AOL members in first two weeks

October 15, 2002
AOL launches AOL 8.0

July 24, 2002
AOL service surpasses 35 million members

March 12, 2002
Worldwide AOL Membership Surpasses 34 Million-Members Now Using AOL More Than 1 Billion Hours Each Month

December 28, 2001
Worldwide AOL Membership Surpasses 33 Million

April 16, 2001
Worldwide membership of AOL surpasses 29 million

March 08, 2001
Worldwide membership of AOL surpasses 28 million. AOL members average almost 70 minutes on the service daily.

January 16, 2001
AOL reaches 27 million members—adding a new member every 6 seconds. Average online usage breaks the one-hour-a-day mark.

January 11, 2001
America Online and Time Warner complete merger

2000
Time Inc. acquires Times Mirror Magazines from Tribune Company, including Golf, Ski, Skiing, Field & Stream, Yachting and other titles.

2000
Real Simple , part of the People Magazine Group, launches

2000
Fortune launches the E-50 Index and eCompany Now magazine, definitive guides to the Internet economy

2000
CNN.com offers first-ever online interview with a sitting U.S. President

2000
ICQ breaks the 85 million member mark

2000
AOL Argentina and AOL Mexico launch

2000
AOL acquires MapQuest, the leading provider of online directions and travel information

1999
Time Warner Cable holds two video-on-demand tests in Austin, Texas, and Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida

1999
AOL Hong Kong launches

1999
ICQ reaches 40 million members, tripling its number of registered users in the 14 months following its acquisition by AOL

1999
Netscape joins the AOL family of brands, followed by MovieFone, Spinner, Winamp, SHOUTcast and DMS, the leader in online custom market research

1998
HBO announces transmission of HDTV channels; HBO and Cinemax launch multiplex channels.

1998
Teen People launches

1998
AOL acquires CompuServe and online messaging pioneer ICQ.

1997
Turner Broadcasting System's bid for a hockey franchise in Atlanta is approved; the Thrashers, named after Georgia's state bird, begin playing in Fall 1999.

1997
CNN en Español, a 24-hour Spanish channel, launches with 4 million subscribers, the largest cable launch in Latin American history

1997
AOL Japan launches

1997
AOL community breaks the 10 million member mark—and AOL begins delivering more daily mail in the form of e-mail and instant messages than the U.S. Postal Service

1996
Time Warner Inc. and Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., merge, creating the world's leading entertainment, information and media company

1996
People en Español launches

1996
Bugs Bunny becomes the U.S. Postal Service's "ambassador to youth," with a commemorative stamp series honoring the Looney Tunes characters

1996
AOL is publicly traded for the first time on the NYSE; Wall Street sign is changed to WAOL Street for the day.

1996
AOL launches the Buddy List instant message feature for AOL members, and the free AOL Instant Message(AIM) service for Internet users

1995
Time For Kids launches.

1995
Time Warner and leading electronics and software companies agree to develop a 5-inch, super-density video disc (SD-DVD) with 15 times the storage capacity of CDs

1995
Time Warner Cable and Time Inc. announce development of a new online service using cable modems (Road Runner)

1995
The WB Network debuts

1995
AOL International launches its first online service in Europe—AOL Germany. AOL UK, AOL Canada and AOL France follow the next year

1994
Time Warner Cable wins an Emmy Award for its pioneering work on fiber optic transmission

1994
Warner/Chappell Music acquires CPP/Belwin, becoming world's largest music publisher and largest publisher of printed music

1994
In Style magazine launches

1994
Turner Classic Movies launches.

1994
Turner Broadcasting System and New Line Cinema merge.

1994
The AOL community reaches 1 million members; AOL links members to the Internet for the first time; AOL.com—America Online's Internet portal—is announced.

1993
AOL becomes the first online service to release a Windows version of its software. Steve Case is named CEO of America Online.

1992
NY1 News launches, the first 24-hour local all-news channel

1992
America Online makes key content deals with news providers such as CNN Newsroom and the San Jose Mercury News

1992
America Online becomes a publicly traded company, issuing 2 million shares of stock on the NASDAQ

1990
Entertainment Weekly launches

1990
America Online begins trying out innovative marketing techniques of giving away free AOL software. Steve Case is named President of America Online.

1989
Time Warner Inc. is created as the world's largest media and entertainment company with Time Inc.'s acquisition of Warner Communications Inc.

1989
Sports Illustrated for Kids launches

1989
Steve Case wins contest to rename the Quantum online service—America Online is born. The AOL service is launched—including e-mail, games, special interest forums, plus a groundbreaking feature allowing AOL members to communicate in one-on-one, real time conversations.

1985
Time Inc. acquires Southern Progress Corp. (founded 1886), adding to its roster of Progressive Farmer (launched 1886), Southern Living (launched 1966) and Oxmoor House (established 1969).

1985
Steve Case, Jim Kimsey and Marc Seriff conceive of a new company, Quantum Computer Services, to deliver online information and other services to consumers via PC modems. The World Wide Web does not yet exist.

1982
Headline News premieres in more than 800,000 cable homes, with updated newscasts every half-hour.

1980
Cinemax launches as a companion to HBO, making them the cable industry's first pay-TV "tier"

1980
CNN, the world's first 24-hour, all-news network, premieres with 1.7 million subscribers

1979
Turner Communications Group becomes Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., and WTCG is renamed WTBS

1978
Time Inc. acquires cable operator American Television & Communications (ATC)

1977
Turner Communications Group purchases controlling interest in NBA's Atlanta Hawks

1976
Turner Broadcasting's WTCG in Atlanta is beamed via satellite to cable homes nationwide, becoming cable's first superstation

1976
Turner Communications Group purchases MLB's Atlanta Braves

1974
People magazine launches

1972
Home Box Office transmits first programming to 365 subscribers in Wilkes-Barre, PA

1972
Money magazine launches

1969
Warner-Seven Arts acquired by Kinney National Co. and becomes Warner Communications Inc.

1968
Time Inc. acquires Boston publishing house Little, Brown and Company (founded 1837)

1961
Time Life Inc. is created as the Time Inc. book division

1928
First Time magazine Man-of-the-Year features Charles Lindbergh

1927
Warner Bros. releases the first synchronized talking movie, Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer

1923
Time 's first issue published.

1922
Time Inc. is incorporated.

1918
The brothers Warner open their first West Coast Studio on a 10-acre lot on Sunset Boulevard

1918
At Army training camp, Henry Luce and Briton Hadden conceive the idea for Time magazine. (Time Inc. is incorporated in 1922.)

History of AOL Time Warner Inc.