aol would bet a million dollars at the end of year to say okay, but your sales on aol so we could drawtraffic to them. compuserve would match it or go higher. and each year we were making by creating communities online. on the world wide web came along and in some ways it was bad. because a couple things happen. first of all, on the web is that while this is great were not in this garden of this online service. we can control everything we do. so we took the entire magazine and put it online. but we'll let people drive by and certified with the magazine. we were creating a community. at the very most of the sort of a comments section may be at the end of an article, but nobody did that. it is came by, read the magazine, and then moved on. so we lost the notion of community. the good thing is that is changed back, just in the past five years, social media, social networking, youtube, twitter, facebook, myspace, the notion of creating communities around ideas and content has come back. but the other thing we did when we do everything online as we ascend that we would subscribe to it just

. >> and i would add only it's not the first time that kind of thing has happened, having worked at aol/time warner after the merger. how do you deal with business? >> which raises the question about merger? >> that's also -- there's some assumptions about what the state of broadband competition. because if you have an infinite broadband users that one is going to criminate against me because they have this sense, i'll choose another broadband provider. of course in large parters of the united states, there is not broadband competition. the amount of competitive amount you'd have will do a lot to address these kinds of concerns. so, you know, that's just a pitch for broadband. >> we don't have that problem. because we've unbundled and you can choose who you like. >> which makes the idea in britain of cutting off access from the single provider, you know, perhaps less of a concern. over hear where in fact there really is one broadband provider, you really are talking about internet access for many households. and that could be problematic. and not only nonconstitutional and due process c

i think it's really interesting that if this was you know rks january 15th, 2000, that aol and time warner would have just merged. and i was reading a lot about this on the "new york times" yesterday. $350 billion is what it's estimated that merger was worth and people said that it was going to change the landscape of the internet, it was going to change the way that news was reported and all of this. and if anyone would have said, you know, 10 years ago that it would be just a flop, no one would have believed you, so my question for each of the panelists is, what do we believe today, that in two years or five years or 10 years is -- people are just going to say i can't believe we believed that. >> about technology? >> yeah. gentleman. >> that's deep. >> after -- everybody found their facebook predictions. >> well, i think, and i don't know, we have to look at how technology is advancing that. i mean, things that took two years to create a year ago, will take half the time today. it's moving -- history says that psychology is advancing -- that technology is advancing so rapidly, so this co

our last question, i think it is interesting that if this was a january 15 at 2000 that'saol -- that' aolwarner would have just emerged. the merger was worth three under $50,000. they said it would change everything critic -- $350,000. they said it would change everything. what do we believe today that in five years or 10 years people are going to say, i cannot believe we believed that? >> about technology? >> wow. >> everyone fell on their face with predictions. now you want us to go out there? >> you have to look at how quickly technology is advancing. things that took two years to create a year ago will take half the time today. technology is advancing so rapidly. the concept of convergence and that everything will be touch screen and you walk in your house and there will be no more televisions or computers -- everything will be ted scream. we are seeing some of that already. -- touch screen. we are seeing some of that already. skype has added to this. i do not know if it'll be 10 years from now, but it'll be interesting to see this. leo henry was asked about the information superhighw