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Perhaps more of interest to those who lived through it than those who arrived on the tail end, this is a fascinating and sometimes frustrating look back on infamous moments in AOL history.

The one thing not mentioned in the article is AOL’s link to the ironically self-titled Open Directory Project aka DMOZ, an once noble if hopelessly overoptimistic project whose recent history is as infamous as that of its owners.

20 Years of AOL Annoyances and Foul-Ups
by Harry McCracken, Technologizer, PCWorld
Apr 28, 2009

AOL floppies and CDs. Sharon Stone’s fling with the Running Man icon. The death of Netscape. It’s all part of AOL history we’d like to forget.

Read the PCWorld article here.

Discussion continues here.

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DMOZ reaches a new low

by djbaxter June 8, 2007

Compostannie, one of the most hard-working, most honest, and most principled of the mixed bag of DMOZ editors and arguably one of the best ambassadors DMOZ ever had, has been removed by the scurrilous crew that makes up the DMOZ inner sanctum.
Debates over the cowardly and shameful way this was done are currently raging [...]

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Mandated Social Responsibility on the Net

by djbaxter September 10, 2006

I have previously written of the appalling lack of social responsibility at prominent websites such as the Open Directory Project (ODP or DMOZ) (see Social Responsibility on the Net: DMOZ Declines, DMOZ and web sites promoting anorexia and self-injury, DMOZ still promoting pro-anorexia, pro-self-injury sites, AOL-owned DMOZ Directory promotes child pornography?, and DMOZ still listing pro-pedophilia [...]

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Social Responsibility on the Net: DMOZ Declines

by djbaxter June 28, 2006

AOL-owned DMOZ (the “Open Directory Project”) is a large human-edited directory of websites which purports to list only the best of the web - those quality sites which add value to the internet. Given this stated goal and the fact that DMOZ editors reject more sites than they list, I have previously argued that it is [...]

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DMOZ still promoting pro-anorexia, pro-self-injury sites

by djbaxter May 30, 2006

I last posted on these DMOZ listings on May 2, 2006, almost a month ago (see DMOZ and web sites promoting anorexia and self-injury). I just checked back today – nothing has changed.
DMOZ, also knows as the Open Directory Project or ODP, is a large human-edited internet directory owned by Netscape which is in turn owned [...]

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DMOZ and web sites promoting anorexia and self-injury

by djbaxter May 2, 2006

I have written previously about the AOL-owned directory known as DMOZ or ODP (Open Directory Project) endorsing and promoting via listings in their directory sites that are pro-pedophilia and/or provide forums and chat rooms where child molesters can congregate to rationalize and justify their sexual preferences (see AOL-owned DMOZ Directory promotes child pornography [February 14, 2006] and [...]

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DMOZ still listing pro-pedophilia sites

by djbaxter April 15, 2006

Back on February 14, 2006, in my article, AOL-owned DMOZ Directory promotes child pornography?, I said:
There is a very long thread at DigitalPoint Forums running to some 60 pages and almost 1200 posts as of this writing with the title “DMOZ supports child porn?“. The thread discusses the listing in certain DMOZ categories of websites which [...]

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