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1996 Flashback: AOL goes down for 19 hours

The online service experienced a major outage that left users and business unplugged from the Internet for nearly an entire day. This 1996 "CBS Evening News" report looked at the impact the outage had on Internet users, who at the time were less than 20 percent of the population. Peter Van Sant has the story of the day America Online went offline.
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