AOL Community Leader Program

The AOL Community Leader Program or AOL CLP was the official name for the large group of America Online online service volunteers who moderated chat rooms, message boards, and download libraries.

The program's roots dated back to the use of online remote volunteer "guides" by AOL predecessor QuantumLink at its start in 1985. The system which became AOL established the Community Leader Program officially in the early 1990s, and discontinued it in 2005. At the peak of the program, it is estimated that AOL had approximately 14,000 volunteers,[1] including 350 non-adult teenagers.[2]

  1. ^ Thornally, G. (1999). AOL By George. New Jersey: Urly Media, 120. ISBN 0-9675411-0-7.
  2. ^ Margonelli, Lisa. "Inside AOL's "Cyber-Sweatshop"". WIRED. Retrieved 2016-02-02.