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 many of us, AOL is a name relegated to the dustbin of history. It doesn’t seem like that long ago when I couldn’t open up my (physical) mailbox without seeing one or two AOL 3.5-inch floppy disks ...

Alto is AOL's new mail venture, in which the company gives up on getting people to have AOL.com e-mail addresses. "We found that nobody wants another email address," Senior Director of Product for AOL ...