It was the most talked-about merger of the turn of the century. Print media giant Time Warner was set to become one with American Online (AOL), the new kid on the block, offering services such as email and Internet for the masses. For a whopping $111 billion, the marriage between the written and electronic word was meant to last forever, so what made the deal go sour? Differing ideological views, the death of dial-up Internet access, and the disappearance of the dot-com boom rendered the merger defunct. These two companies went their separate ways, but not before losing billions of dollars.