- published: 07 Aug 2014
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AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL, previously known as America Online, written as "AOL" and stylized as "Aol." but commonly pronounced as an initialism) is an American global Internet services and media company. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York. Founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions of its services. AOL is headquartered in New York City, but has many offices throughout cities in North America, such as Atlanta, Baltimore, Beverly Hills, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Dulles, Mountain View, Orlando, San Francisco, and Toronto. London and Tokyo are its foreign offices. As of December 2011, it serves 3.3 million paid subscribers.[citation needed]
AOL is best known for its online software suite, also called AOL, that allowed customers to access the world's largest "walled garden" online community and eventually reach out to the Internet as a whole. At its prime, AOL's membership was over 30 million members worldwide, most of whom accessed the AOL service through the AOL software suite. The company has claimed that it had 34 million subscribers at its peak, although an undisclosed portion were using free hours.
Everybody knows you came with him but another girl called this time
Now you're sittin' there all alone watchin' them that's fine
And I know you're wonderin' what you'll do if he doesn't come back to you
But don't worry I'll take you home so pretty girl don't you be blue
Now I know that you wore the pretty red dress just for him to see
But I want to tell you that that red dress looks good to me
Oh I know you feel like you wanna die why pretending that I'm your guy
Don't worry I'll take you home so pretty girl now don't you cry
I'll take you home when the dance is over
I'll take you home just to wait and see you're gonna dance the last dance with me
I know the way you feel I can understand
Cause I had an ache just like you when the dance began
But the girl I can get that was untrue she's the girl that took him from you
So don't you see now I'll take you home cause pretty girl I'm lonely too
Well I know the way you feel...