“Jan started striking deals with magazines where instead of getting their subscriber list, they would just package AOL disks with the magazine itself, gluing it to the front page like a perfume sample.”

Jan Brandt · Hyperfixed · How America Got Online

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partnered with magazines to glue AOL disks onto the front page of the magazine like a perfume sample

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“Jan paid these magazines for their subscriber lists and began to send these pockets of men packets of disks.”
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