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AOL is sending out CDs with their latest version
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terrisus
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Diprosalic
Banned
it's funny that even we had a ton of those aol CDs and you couldn't even get AOL here. no idea how they made it here, i always wondered what AOL even was. it was only just a year ago ago when i found it out, now all the "for AOL users do it this way"-texts in emails make sense.
terrisus
Member
Going by your avatar, is "here" = "England?"
Since, AOL UK used to be a pretty awesome thing.
And then it was sold to Carphone Warehouse =(
(Of course, "here" could be somewhere else. I'm sure AOL sent them to loads of unnecessary places :þ)
I loved when AOL was sending out floppies, I'd just format them and reuse them. I got so many free disks that way.
Shame they switched CD-ROM instead of CD-RW (I know, no chance they would do that, but I wish), so they were utterly useless to me, except to maybe stick in a microwave for 3 seconds to get a lightshow.
terrisus
Member
Agreed, those were actually useful.
Sadly, I never got too many of them.
But then, we signed up from an AOL 2.5 Floppy, so they probably didn't feel the need to send us anymore.
Liferebooted
Banned
Omg, downloading AOL right now since I'm so bored. Flashback to the 90s time. 
terrisus
Member
Omg, downloading AOL right now since I'm so bored. Flashback to the 90s time.
Woo-hoo!
Seriously, considering virtually everyone here has a separate connection already, which means they can use AOL for free, there's no reason not to*!
*
(I mean, aside from the lack of stuff to do there now... >.>)
manzoman96
Member
Quiet, sonny :þ
(Just kidding, of course <3)
Sadly, the hard drive of my 2nd computer died, and that was before I was in the habit of backing up stuff, so I only have things saved back to mid-1999 =(
My first AOL account dates back to the mid-2000's, back when everyone I knew still used Instant Messenger.
That I'd like to see a resurgence of popularity in.
Liferebooted
Banned
Omg "Welcome, you got mail" made it worth it. Holy crap people are still on AIM complete with away messages. o.o
terrisus
Member
My first AOL account dates back to the mid-2000's, back when everyone I knew still used Instant Messenger.
That I'd like to see a resurgence of popularity in.
I'm surprised AIM didn't see more consistent use.
Especially considering one can send texts to phones from it.
<3
Liferebooted
Banned
I have 8100 emails in my inbox.. and only 6 in my spam o.o
terrisus
Member
"Why haven't you written back?"
"You know, I was just joking about not liking you."
"Are you still there?"
"I actually wanted to have sex with you."
"Hello?..."
"Well, fine then, be that way!"
TheAbsolution
Member
No. No, you're not.
If what works for you, works for you. Keep doing it. Nobody is gonna stop you.
<3
terrisus
Member
To be fair, mail on AOL 5.0 has issues with displaying embedded HTML correctly.
I'm usually fine with that though, since the messy HTML usually just gets in the way of me reading the email.
It always annoyed my wife, when we were dating, back around 2002 and such, that she would send me all these "cute" things in emails, which I never got/wouldn't display as intended for me.
I remember she would always end her emails with a heart, which would just display as a 'ú' for me.
(Yeah, I don't know why she married me, either >.>)
manzoman96
Member
I logged in to my original account to see my sign up date, but I got stopped by a security question. I can't remember what I put for as my favorite movie back in elementary school 
terrisus
Member
I logged in to my original account to see my sign up date, but I got stopped by a security question. I can't remember what I put for as my favorite movie back in elementary school
Aww =(
Isn't there any other option?
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Screw AOL.
Bring back Compuserve!
GO GAMINGAGE
Bring back Compuserve!
GO GAMINGAGE
terrisus
Member
cj_iwakura
Member
I still have my account as well. I gave up on desktop a while ago, though. Far too buggy.
terrisus
Member
Come back to 5.0 <3
manzoman96
Member
terrisus
Member
nopeguessed too many times and now I can't try again for another 24 hours.
Call them up? >.>
n64coder
Member
I never used AOL for myself but I remember having to support them in the mid 90s. They were one of my company's biggest customers. When they had an issue with our product, we (Support, Sales, Engineering) jumped to get past their issue. If I remember correctly, they were a big HP-UX shop.
My in-laws still use AOL. I gave up trying to have them use gmail or outlook. It was too complicated for them.
My in-laws still use AOL. I gave up trying to have them use gmail or outlook. It was too complicated for them.
Auron_Kale
Member
Just logged into AOL mail with my old account.
Strangely, I was kinda sad seeing only 1 email and it was basically a welcome email from AOL. All of my contacts are empty but then again, maybe I'll check to see if my AIM friends are still around (despite having other means of contacting them) later on when I get home.
Strangely, I was kinda sad seeing only 1 email and it was basically a welcome email from AOL. All of my contacts are empty but then again, maybe I'll check to see if my AIM friends are still around (despite having other means of contacting them) later on when I get home.
manzoman96
Member
I'll just give it another try tomorrow. I mean I still know the password so not sure why they're making me jump through hoops.
terrisus
Member
Probably the "logging on from a different device for the first time" sort of thing.
Meh. Better luck tomorrow!
terrisus
Member
Of course <3
I have terrisus.com and also MyfirstnameMylastname.com for when I want more professional emails
Liferebooted
Banned
The AOL Client froze and stopped responding just like in the old days.
terrisus
Member
The AOL Client froze and stopped responding just like in the old days.
Yeah, it does that when you click on anything which doesn't lead anywhere anymore.
Which is most things, unfortunately =(
Wuthering_Heights
Banned
....Terris people, huh?
Did you prefer Tranos or Devardec?
>.>
Did you prefer Tranos or Devardec?
>.>
Rapscallion
Member
This is just making me want to download an old version of AOL and go into the chats. There's no way I could get onto my old username...I would have no idea what my password or anything would be.
terrisus
Member
<3 =) <3
Devardec is my home <3
Do you/did you play?
I'm off to sleep in a minute, but, PM me <3
The question is how do you not know terrisus is on AOL?? If there's even a small thread that connects a thread to AOL, terrisus is gonna be there with his screenshots
He totally does it just for the hipster cred. Probably still has a flip phone, and only types out documents on a turn of the century typewriter.
Haha yes. CPU's were so slow that you could just flood someone's IM window with an unclosed huge font size bracket that you'd copy and paste incessantly. It would lock up their AOL software (if not entire machine) indefinitely and then eventually the modem would disconnect.
spindashing
Banned
JinjoUnchained
Member
Yeah, but what about us CompuServe users?
terrisus
Member
I have some bad news for you... >.>
Seriously though, it's so sad that so much of the various "walled garden" network content has pretty much been lost forever =(
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