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Post by Andrewghbk99 on Sept 26, 2014 21:44:40 GMT -5
I see a lot of people on here talking about stuff from back in the day. For example a few threads down about VCRs and then I was reading up about the old AOL.
Who here remembers aol? The stupid dial up and broadband connection. It basically being it's own browser like ie explorer and google chrome.
The chat rooms! Those were awesome just going in a chat room for whatever subject you wanted and making online friends and having your friends list. Just fun stuff back then
Anyone else miss aol? I remember with aol there was the msn setup aswell but I never could understand it back then.
I miss old stuff from back then. Everything was simple lol.
Well y'all can talk bout aol but also what other things do U miss from back in the day.
I miss old designs on like cereal boxes and soda cans/bottles.
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Post by John Zero on Sept 26, 2014 22:41:01 GMT -5
I remember mom hating and refusing to use AOL. We used Prodigy and then MSN, I think. She got pissed at me big time when I install AIM. SHe thought that it meant I put AOL on the computer. I also remember the non stop AOL cds coming in the mail.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2014 22:41:32 GMT -5
I remember dial-up internet very well. My dad had the internet long before anyone else I knew so that sound will forever be imbedded in my brain. We also had Prodigy instead of AOL. However, I was addicted to AIM in middle school and would be on there all day after school talking to friends.
I also remember people calling our home phone and the line being busy because we were on the internet.
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Post by Duck Holliday on Sept 26, 2014 23:06:05 GMT -5
I don't miss it, but I do occasionally get nostalgialc over it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2014 23:06:46 GMT -5
Yeah, we had Dial Up until 2010 if I remember right. People PC I think.
I don't miss it at all.
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Post by The Mask of Truth on Sept 27, 2014 1:05:51 GMT -5
It was slow as hell !
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Post by ¡Twist Of Lime Green Jello! on Sept 27, 2014 1:49:50 GMT -5
I never used AOL, MSN was my preferred choice. I certainly remember the chatrooms and trying to come to terms with the fact that I was typing messages to people worldwide. I remember convincing a gullible fool that I was The Undertaker though, hilarious stuff. He told me to get in touch with Vince because he had been busting his ass for years to be a wrestler.
As for dial up, I certainly remember that too unfortunately. It was around the time of Limewire before I started buying music. I'd connect to the internet at around 11pm (hoping that the connecting sound didn't wake anyone because it was certainly loud enough to) and set seven or eight songs to download. Each song would only be about three mb each but I'd be excited to wake up each morning to see the songs had finished downloading. Now we have broadband although at times it still feels like its dial up speed.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2014 4:24:02 GMT -5
BAHDONG BAHDONG DONG.... DEEEEEEEE DEEEEEE DDEEEEEEEE... CCCCCCEEERRRRRRHRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHWAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH.
Music. Kids don't know what they missed.
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Sept 27, 2014 10:11:54 GMT -5
We had dial up for a while, I don't mind it. I remember trying to get images of an old Jakks series to load. I know it was a set with Raven, Steven Richards and a few others, and the images just took forever.
Also, I had AIM and would spend countless hours on it.
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Post by gawd6sic6™ on Sept 27, 2014 10:23:51 GMT -5
screw AIM....... ICQ was where it was at!
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Post by Andrewghbk99 on Sept 27, 2014 10:31:01 GMT -5
Yeah I remember the dial up. If your parents went to pick up the phone or someone called u, didn't it like knock out the service and you had to reconnect?
I remember waiting for stuff to load but then we got broadband and things were much faster. Then I forgot what happened I guess I just moved onto using ie explorer. Then eventually AIM was the go to messenger.
Icq as a kid I could never understand. WAs it a pay service back in the day and now it's free?
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Post by The Yes Man on Sept 27, 2014 11:06:45 GMT -5
God dial up sucked. I remember waiting a half hour or so everyday just to load Undertakers profile on wwe.com. Every single day.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2014 11:34:28 GMT -5
I had a stack of floppy discs with wrestling pictures saved on them because my computer barely had any memory. Either the internet disconnected when someone called or the phone would have a busy signal. A computer mouse with a cord attached to it. Trying to load a picture and it would always stop before it got to the...um, good stuff.  And you could not have multiple windows or tabs opened at the same time. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2014 11:41:56 GMT -5
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Post by BrIaNMeRcY on Sept 27, 2014 11:54:49 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2014 12:31:39 GMT -5
Well y'all can talk bout aol but also what other things do U miss from back in the day. I miss old designs on like cereal boxes and soda cans/bottles. First thing that comes to mind is the WILD mid-late 90s Coke soda designs Some other old things from mid-late 90s that I miss: Overly buff Star Wars figures  Luke "Do You Even Lift" Skywalker  Lando "Dat Dere Celltech" Calrissian  Admiral "The Rybaq" Ackbar Whacky-colored Batman figures and Batman accessories (mostly from that giant toy advertisement known as Batman and Robin) |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2014 12:36:00 GMT -5
Well y'all can talk bout aol but also what other things do U miss from back in the day. I miss old designs on like cereal boxes and soda cans/bottles. First thing that comes to mind is the WILD mid-late 90s Coke soda designs Some other old things from mid-late 90s that I miss: Overly buff Star Wars figures Luke "Do You Even Lift" Skywalker Lando "Dat Dere Celltech" Calrissian Admiral "The Rybaq" Ackbar Whacky-colored Batman figures and Batman accessories (mostly from that giant toy advertisement known as Batman and Robin) I loved that Cherry Coke design. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2014 12:50:23 GMT -5
I remember this so clearly while looking for TNA info in 2005. |
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Post by Gangrel-Brood on Sept 27, 2014 13:20:50 GMT -5
The first site I rushed to when we got the Internet at my house was WWF.com. The first thing I did when I got there was watch Blue Meanie's entrance video in full 28.8K glory.
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Post by facemeat on Sept 27, 2014 13:51:04 GMT -5
I still use a free dial-up connection from time to time, but that's only to connect to the internet with old devices that only have a 56k or 28.8k modem. I've never used it as my main internet connection.
As for AOL, we didn't even get the internet at home until 2004, so my only memory of them was seeing their free CDs everywhere.
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