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Post by ravishing on Jun 14, 2012 3:32:30 GMT -5
AHHHH GOOD TIMES. Who still misses the days when AOL was the hip thing in the 90s? and not all this firefox/facebook crap we have now?? AOL was everything back then, browser, chatter etc. AHHHH who could ever forget the Buddy List. 90S.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2012 4:03:10 GMT -5
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Post by Happy Pizza on Jun 14, 2012 4:06:48 GMT -5
I remember back in the day when instead of "Like us on Facebook" almost every commercial had AOL Keywords attached.
For example: "WrestlingFigs.com, AOL Keyword 'WFigs'"
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Post by OverTheEdge on Jun 14, 2012 7:34:42 GMT -5
Just don't call my ing house when I'm on the internet. So, yeah. Getting kicked off, taking eight hours to download a low quality song, videos being pretty much unthinkable? I'm going to have to go with no.
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Post by /X Metal Sorenges x "Mac Oh J~ on Jun 14, 2012 7:55:14 GMT -5
The good times???...No I don't miss the lousy dial up connection one bit. But nice try
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Post by T R W on Jun 14, 2012 8:10:57 GMT -5
I don't miss my first AOL bill that I got, which was around $225 or so, back when you had to pay hourly.
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Post by Parchandri on Jun 14, 2012 8:14:36 GMT -5
Even worse, all of the discs they would send you in the mail.
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Post by acura143 on Jun 14, 2012 9:19:05 GMT -5
I remember running a 50ft line across my room so to the telephone jack so I just can use the internet. The good old days. Taking about 15 to 20 minutes just to get connected to dial up and another 5 minutes just to try load something. Don't miss a dam thing.
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Post by Parchandri on Jun 14, 2012 9:21:37 GMT -5
Yeah, I remember leaving Napster open for days to download a CD, haha.
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Post by realjuicewinslow on Jun 14, 2012 11:06:24 GMT -5
I still use AOL.
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Post by Yeezy's Mullet: Team X Blades on Jun 14, 2012 11:21:12 GMT -5
That's like asking who misses going down to the creek and doing laundry with a good ol' washing board. Yeah.....the good old days, before all this washer and dryer crap.
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Post by Sully© on Jun 14, 2012 11:26:27 GMT -5
I can remeber sneaking to go online late at night, and I had to put blankets all around the tower to try to quiet that damn dial tone down.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2012 11:37:33 GMT -5
Oh god I'll never miss that. And on top of that it sounds like dubstep.
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Post by realjuicewinslow on Jun 14, 2012 11:55:52 GMT -5
That's like asking who misses going down to the creek and doing laundry with a good ol' washing board. Yeah.....the good old days, before all this washer and dryer crap. LOL.
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Post by Eat Defeat. on Jun 14, 2012 12:14:44 GMT -5
I like the internet the way it has evolved now.
I do like a bit of nostalgia though: the old dial up sound, the old windows 98 clicking sounds & stuff, 300k videos etc.
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Post by JC Motors on Jun 14, 2012 12:47:27 GMT -5
weren't AOL keywords different from the actual websites
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Jun 14, 2012 13:11:27 GMT -5
weren't AOL keywords different from the actual websites Yeah. Adam Curry tells a story of how he somehow got the .com for some brand name. I can't recall what it was. He offered to sell it to the company and they said, "Not interested. We've got the AOL keyword so we're fine." I remember downloading a 50 mb operating system. Took all night. Literally. Remember the download managers that let you pause downloads and start them again?
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Post by Yeezy's Mullet: Team X Blades on Jun 14, 2012 13:16:22 GMT -5
Lol. I remember companies like Net Zero offering "High Speed Dial-Up" as the be all end all of connections.
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Jun 14, 2012 13:29:46 GMT -5
56k ftw
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Post by Captain d00m - Mr. 3000 on Jun 14, 2012 13:32:33 GMT -5
We have streaming pornography now.
I think that answers your question.
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