Microsoft, AOL headed for final showdown

CNET: “At an America Online staff meeting in 1994, then-President Ted Leonsis wheeled out a wooden cutout
of a bare-fanged Tyrannosaurus rex meant to symbolize the company’s most menacing enemy:
Microsoft.

Leonsis’ representation was both right and wrong. The software giant indeed presented a major threat at the
time–the eve of the launch of its Microsoft Network–but its battle form would come to resemble a
multiheaded Hydra more than a prehistoric
monster. Rather than full-frontal assaults,
Microsoft would attack from many directions
simultaneously and regenerate appendages
whenever they were severed.”