Everything You Didn't Know About Tech & Media

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In 1983, a man named Bill Von Meister started a company called Control Video Corporation. CVC sold one product for $50 a pop. It was called Gameline and it allowed Atari 2600 videogame console owners to actually buy new games over their phone lines for $1 a piece.

Twenty-six years and countless corporate iterations later, Von Meister's company is now known by a different name: AOL.

In January 2009, our Henry Blodget wrote that if it was going to survive, that New York York Times had to consider charging its readers for access to its online content. Little did Henry know that the Times was a quarter century ahead of him.