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Notice to all AOL users: (updated)

"I posted a new photo but I still see the old one" This information comes from a Web "Tutorial" web site:

"Websites are basically just files (Pictures and text are files) that are stored on one computer (the host) and then copied to a folder on yours. A browser interprets the instructions in these files and displays an image (pictures and text) on your monitor that represents what the website designer wanted you to see. That's fine, unless the website is in the process of changing. Most browsers automatically load the most current version of a website every time you access that site. However, AOL designed its browser to save a copy of each website in a folder on your computer so that if you looked at a website now, and then again in an hour AOL's browser could take a short cut (not download a fresh copy of the website) and just show you the copy of the website that it already saved to a folder on your computer. That works fine if the website does not change. But, if the website has changed, on AOL you can only see the old copy. Why would this be a problem? Imagine you are going to a news website watching for an update on a big news story. You keep going there for hours but nothing seems to change. That's because AOL just keeps loading the old copy of the website into your computer over and over again. In essence, AOL has blocked your ability to see changes in the website and therefore changes in the news stories etc."
From www.baddteddy.com/computer_tutorials/computer_tutorials_browser.htm

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