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Ten years ago, internet behemoth America Online and media conglomerate Time Warner joined forces in what was- and still is- the largest merger of all time. Valued at $350 billion, the deal was expected to create a super company capable of dominating the media landscape in both the traditional, physical world of the past and the limitless, cyberspace dream world yet to come.
But as we now know, the deal was a calamity. Time Warner finally cut ties with AOL last year, with the independent online company reverting to its meager, pre-dotcom boom value. In a time when Google, Amazon and Facebook now rule the internet, it seems like it is only a matter of time before AOL will go down as a footnote in world wide web history and best remembered as the answer to the trivia question, "What company...