Welcome. You’ve got mail. Goodbye. Today, AOL officially spins off from TimeWarner as an independent company, the last remnant of a merger originally announced in 2000, where the company was briefly known as AOL Time Warner.  AOL had 30 million subscribers at its peek, when they were the leader in online access. Here is a brief history of AOL, known at its peak as America Online. 1980s: Control [...]