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@Anonymous (7/11 6:24 AM PDT)
AOL is almost certainly complicit in this. In the days of dial-up, America Online was the sole experience of thousands of people. They opened an application which then connected to the internet (audibly), and then they were free to do all sorts of things. Many of them never made use of AOL's actual browser, but rather only its web apps; and show them that, once connected, they were free to use other software, like IE or Netscape, and they'd be astonished.
So, the modern extrapolation of this (the internet isn't on unless the browser is open) should come as no suprise.
Jul 11, 2009, 10:05:43 AM
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