Editing AOL (section)

=== Membership ===
AOL offers a range of integrated products and properties including communication tools, mobile apps and services and subscription packages.

In 2017, before the discontinuation of AIM, "billions of messages" were sent "daily" on it and AOL's other chat services.<ref name=":1" />
* [[Dial-up Internet access]] – While 2.1&nbsp;million people still used AOL's dial-up service as recently as 2015,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Matyszczyk |first=Chris |date=May 8, 2015 |title=More than 2 million people still pay for AOL dial-up |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/more-than-2-million-people-still-pay-for-aol-dialup/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224093115/https://www.cnet.com/news/more-than-2-million-people-still-pay-for-aol-dialup/ |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=May 8, 2015 |website=CNET}}</ref> only a few thousand were still subscribed as of 2021.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sherman |first=Alex |title=About 1.5 million people still pay for AOL — but now they get tech support and identity theft services instead of dial-up internet |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/03/aol-1point5-million-people-still-pay-for-service-but-not-for-dial-up-internet.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220902161735/https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/03/aol-1point5-million-people-still-pay-for-service-but-not-for-dial-up-internet.html |archive-date=September 2, 2022 |access-date=August 7, 2022 |work=[[CNBC]] |language=en}}</ref>
* [[AOL Mail]] – AOL Mail is AOL's proprietary email client. It is fully integrated with AIM and links to news headlines on AOL content sites.
* [[AOL Instant Messenger]] (AIM) – was AOL's proprietary instant-messaging tool. It was released in 1997. It lost market share to competition in the instant messenger market such as Google Chat, Facebook Messenger, and Skype.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Victor |first=Daniel |date=October 6, 2017 |title=A Going-Away Message: AOL Instant Messenger Is Shutting Down |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/technology/aol-aim-shut-down.html?rref=collection/timestopic/AOL%20Inc. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180921200216/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/technology/aol-aim-shut-down.html?rref=collection/timestopic/AOL%20Inc. |archive-date=September 21, 2018 |access-date=July 12, 2018 |work=The New York Times |language=en}}</ref> It also included a video-chat service, AV by AIM. On December 15, 2017, AOL discontinued AIM.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Molina |first=Brett |date=October 6, 2017 |title=RIP AIM: AOL Instant Messenger dies in December |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/10/06/rip-aim-aol-instant-messenger-dies-december/739076001/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725054235/https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/10/06/rip-aim-aol-instant-messenger-dies-december/739076001/ |archive-date=July 25, 2020 |access-date=October 6, 2017 |work=[[USA Today]] |location=[[McLean, Virginia|McLean]], Virginia}}</ref>
* AOL Plans – AOL Plans offers three online safety and assistance tools: ID protection, data security and a general online technical assistance service.<ref>{{Cite web |title=AOL Membership |url=http://corp.aol.com/products-services/aol-membership |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625103003/http://corp.aol.com/products-services/aol-membership |archive-date=June 25, 2016 |access-date=February 5, 2016 |website=AOL Corp}}</ref>