Aol breaks from the past with a new web-based e-mail app. Oct. 18, 2012 — -- "You've got mail!" Ah, the words that so many of us associate with our first email accounts -- our Aol email accounts.

For millions, the first time they went online sounded like this: a click, a dial tone, a burst of static, a high-pitched screech, and then — if the internet gods smiled — silence, followed by a cheery ...

Gen Xers and millennials, in particular, have many embarrassing email addresses hidden in their digital closets. Still, it seemed like a good idea at the time. In the 1990s and early 2000s, the ...