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Damage Inc said:
Two of my clients use it still. One actually has all her email from her Ms Exchange account forwarded to her AOL account. She runs a 3 site facility of over 250 employees. Blows my mind.

The other client is like 90 so I think the desire to change just isn't there.

Do you still use Web Crawler and Icq also?
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Nah, I'm not that bad.

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secretanchitman said:
Terrisus - how come you still use AOL?
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terrisus said:
But not to access my filing cabinet.
In which I have every email I've sent and received dating back to mid-1999 saved.


(Yes, it is possible to export the filing cabinet to various other formats, but still)
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AOL was the internet for the computer illiterate, because normal browsers were scary back in the 90's and early 2000's

It was a mess to uninstall too.
 
I use to have all my e-mails too until they got wiped by Microsoft on the Hotmail side with no warning, I lost my original Yahoo account and at some point when AOL upgraded ICQMail years before they sold ICQ.
 
BocoDragon said:
Omg that would explain a lot!
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Indeed it would :Ăľ

shadowhunter89 said:
AOL was the internet for the computer illiterate, because normal browsers were scary back in the 90's and early 2000's

It was a mess to uninstall too.
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I disagree.
AOL used to have all sorts of awesome stuff on it back in the 1990s, that wasn't anywhere on the general internet.

And, as of 2.5 in 1996 (I believe that was when it started), you could use an external browser for the regular internet when connected to AOL.

I had a separate ISP anyway, but I used Netscape 3.0 Gold


PHOENIXZERO said:
I use to have all my e-mails too until they got wiped by Microsoft on the Hotmail side with no warning, I lost my original Yahoo account and at some point when AOL upgraded ICQMail years before they sold ICQ.
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I'm sorry to hear that =(

One of the awesome things about the AOL Personal Filing Cabinet is that it's a file on one's PC.
Making it very easy to back up and such, without having to worry about them doing anything to it.
 
andthebeatgoeson said:
Whatever. Neogaf is powered by net zero.
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I remember what a freaking hassle they gave me when 8 tried to cancel when i upgraded to Road Runner 15+ years ago. Them bastards.

I also once virtually titty fucked some girl on AOL, good times lmao
 
Wow, they're blocking access to the legacy versions of the software? How disappointing.

Anyway, I posted this in a previous thread, but this is what you get when you subscribe to AOL these days; it actually makes some sense if you just want to do the most basic stuff and/or are a luddite:

This is what you get when you pay for an AOL subscription (annually) these days

The baseline $59.88 plan — “AOL Support Plus” — gets the subscriber:

unlimited dial-up service — which for many rural subscribers remains the only game in town — and tech support for AOL products;
10 percent off a Sprint plan (you would save about $42 per year on the Sprint $34.99/month plan);
8 percent cash back on Priceline (nothing special);
a subscription to MyReputation Discovery (a glorified Google Alert, $156 per year);
McAfee Internet Security Suite (an anti-virus software that puts popup ads on its own site, $55.99 per year);
two free wills from Hyatt Legal planning (this really makes clear the customer base AOL is aiming for);
AOL One Point, a password manager (one of many, some for no charge);
and an AARP membership ($16 per year).

An additional $24.00 per year gets you “AOL Support and Security Plus” and:

5GB Norton Online Backup (similar services such as Dropbox and Google Drive are free);
Life360 Premium (for helicopter parents who want to upgrade to spy-satellite parents. This lets you snoop on your kids for a discount; both AT&TÂ’s and VerizonÂ’s versions cost $119.88 per year);
DataMask, desktop and mobile (identifies suspicious phishing sites — what Google Chrome or any other modern browser does anyway, encrypts data).

Pay an additional $36.00 per year (we’re at $119.88 per year now) for “AOL Advantage Essentials” and you get Private WiFi, a VPN service for encrypted browsing. For most people, this is probably pretty overboard. But if you want it and you buy the service independently, it costs $79.99 per year for three devices.

An additional $24.00 per year gets subscribers “AOL Advantage Plus” and LifeLock Identity Theft Protection. You can get most of what LifeLock offers on your own, but AOL’s offer is a bargain compared to the $219.89 that LifeLock costs separately.

You can upgrade to “AOL Advantage Premium” for an additional $35.52 per year, or $179.40 per year total. That gets you AOL Help Me Optimize, where AOL will defragment your computer, install updates and scan your system up to four times per year.

An additional $36.00 per year gets you “AOL Advantage Premium Plus” and AOL Help Me Set Up, where AOL will configure your printer, fax machine, scanner and router.

Now we’re in the top two tiers. “AOL Total Advantage” costs $299.88 total, an additional $84.48 per year. Subscribers get:

AOL VIP Loyalty program, a.k.a. slightly faster AOL tech support;
MyPrivacy from Reputation.com, which claims to remove subscribers from advertiser lists. It normally costs $99 per year;
AOL Tech Fortress powered by AppGuard, which is an annoyingly capitalized antivirus software;
AOL Help Me Remove Viruses, where AOL will screen-share with you and run a virus scan;
AfterSteps, which offers digital estate planning, i.e. what happens to your email address after you die? Off the shelf, it costs $60 per year or $299 one time for a lifetime membership.

Finally, for an additional $36 per year — a total of $335.88 per year — you can subscribe to “AOL Total Advantage Plus.” That gets you AOL Help Me Fix It, where AOL will fix software issues, configure your antivirus and firewall settings, install those pesky drivers, reformat your drive, etc. (I’ve left out the PC protection plan, which starts at $250 worth of protection in the second tier and works its way up to $1,500 in the top tier, because it honestly seems like everything is exempt from it.)
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vatstep said:
Wow, they're blocking access to the legacy versions of the software? How disappointing.

Anyway, I posted this in a previous thread, but this is what you get when you subscribe to AOL these days; it actually makes some sense if you just want to do the most basic stuff and/or are a luddite:

This is what you get when you pay for an AOL subscription (annually) these days
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Yeah, on a serious note, their plans do make sense for certain people/circumstances/situations.

It's obviously a limited market, but it's there.


But, yeah, I'm hoping there will be a way around this, and I'll be able to keep using 5.0
 
vatstep said:
Wow, they're blocking access to the legacy versions of the software? How disappointing.

Anyway, I posted this in a previous thread, but this is what you get when you subscribe to AOL these days; it actually makes some sense if you just want to do the most basic stuff and/or are a luddite:

This is what you get when you pay for an AOL subscription (annually) these days
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lol wow. good thing AOL has their hands in other pies too. This won't make it another decade.
 
Northeastmonk said:
I remembering cursing in the chats got you banned. My folks had to call them to unlock it. They heard everything I said. I frequented Sega and PlayStation chats the most.

I was JinKazama2k

I remember quite a few people: Vodka, DarkMorrigan, LuDawg94, Guerillo, and SSJ4CloudGoku.

It was a good time.
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rpgmaker01 was my name lol.
 
Duuuuuude, i am so old. AOL was awesome, specifically the chat rooms and signing up for porn lists and never ever went anywhere without my PePsI punter.
 
totowhoa said:
lol wow. good thing AOL has their hands in other pies too. This won't make it another decade.
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Well, they recently (this year) got bought by Verizon.
No idea what's going to shake out of that...

I hope my email address remains untouched, at least...
 
terrisus said:
Well, they recently (this year) got bought by Verizon.
No idea what's going to shake out of that...

I hope my email address remains untouched, at least...
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What happens if it gets deleted? Are you gonna migrate your emails to another service?
Or will you switch to a desktop solution?
 
Reading this thread is like learning about a superhero's origin story.


I never realized that Terrisus = Terris, US. What does "Terris" mean?
 
I think I still have an active e-mail account from AOL, but don't remember the password(or how to reset it) or how to even access the e-mail.

I use BT now.
 
I remember grabbing a handful of AOL discs once or twice a year from Blockbuster to use as coasters for my apartment back in the day. lol
 
DRock said:
I love how the only person online on buddy list is yourself.
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You can tell how old someone is if they have themselves on their AIM buddy list

Everyone I know personally that got on the internet around that time, including myself, has this because it was the easiest way to tell if you still counted as being signed in way back on dialup because you could be offline for quite a while and not know. Adding yourself fixed that.

edit: also, 5.0 was the last one to support Windows 3.1, I think.
 
Great thread.

God I would kill to go hang out with someone on the AOL Desktop development team for a day. That would be so fascinating.
 
I thought AOL was magical when I first began using it in the 90s, all those classic sounds made logging in a treat. This was the inception of being addicted to checking your email. Used to go on chat rooms all the time and thinking my pre pubescent self had a shot with a "college girl" I was chatting with. One day I discovered she had a boyfriend, that was a rough day lads. Heart broken.
 
wanderingprostheyltite said:
I thought AOL was magical when I first began using it in the 90s, all those classic sounds made logging in a treat. This was the inception of being addicted to checking your email. Used to go on chat rooms all the time and thinking my pre pubescent self had a shot with a "college girl" I was chatting with. One day I discovered she had a boyfriend, that was a rough day lads. Heart broken.
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I know that feel, bro =(
 
Remember seeing boxes filed with AOL Cds in flea markets here in Mexico. The vendors had no idea what to do with them, so most of them ended up like this:
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