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[lolotehe]

AOL is not the internet. Do not pretend it is.
AOL is the internet as much as a kiddie pool is the Pacific Ocean.

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[drquuxum.livejournal.com]

It seems like it's the 17th anniversary of "AOL Isn't The Internet", doesn't it?

[bitterfun.livejournal.com]

AOL, that's so quaint. They probably still use VHS tapes and have rabbit ears on their TV.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

AOL's not even a kiddie pool anymore; now it's just a gateway web site. It's like, it's not the Pacific Ocean; it's the little sand-covered ramp from the parking lot to the beach.

[insaint.livejournal.com]

AOL - the gateway drug.

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

Oh yay AOhelL... I remember how borktacular it was when I was in high school... and how hard it was to convince them to cancel my mom's account when she died and they still billed her for a year.

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

no, i have cable now.

and i'm *trying* to convert the movies all over to DVD.

*winks cause even though i *do* use aohell, i have a sense of humor*

[boogara.livejournal.com]

Well, it's better than them saying that "Internet Explorer" is the Internet.

[wxgeek.livejournal.com]

it isn't, really, because the AOL users are about on the same level of understanding.

[wxgeek.livejournal.com]

why in gods name would you do that?

[kyroko.livejournal.com]

Now this sounds like the AOL I always knew.

[kuang.livejournal.com]

They're similar, as long as all you want is a bit of a paddle :)

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

Yeah... listing about 8 numbers to dial into (before the cable modem was someone's wet dream), and none of them working...

My mom had AOL on her laptop, no matter how much I begged her to get off of it. I called and cancelled her account when she died... and thought the problem was resolved... until a year later they tried to bill her for the year after she died. /faceplant.

Then they tried to convince me to switch over from Time Warner to AOL. You can imagine my response, I'm sure. :)

[misfit4leaf.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I hate it when they refer to IE as the internet. Or if I'm trying to get them to do something in IE, such as go to internet options, and they do what I tell them to in a proprietary app rather than IE like I told them to. "Tools...Internet options...There is no Internet options in $App!"

[toxico.livejournal.com]

Heh, I had CompuServe back then.

I don't exercise tact often, but included information about your mom prohibits further joking in that regard and I just can't bring myself to it. :(

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

i'm literally brain-damaged. seriously. i have neurological problems that the doc is tending to think is MS...and i have a really difficult time learning new things. difficult to the point that my late techie b/f put me into tears several times trying to teach me how to use outlook express for email and newsgroups. he finally gave up.

i know how to use gmail for newsgroups now, but that took the fiance a week to teach me how to use it...and he nearly gave up. it sucks. we manage.

[kyidyl.livejournal.com]

Compuserv was AOL re-skinned. We even did support for both in the same build and could be interchanged with no isse.

The only real difference was that compuserv had a keyword: porn. ;P~~

[superbus.livejournal.com]

[mouser.livejournal.com]

My stepfathers solution to a similar problems was one page "scripts" for things. At the top "When you want to..." was at the top of each one, with step by step instructions going down the page.


No idea if it would help, but it's an idea. I'm sure people throw them at you all the time.

[mouser.livejournal.com]

Hey, I rember being on Usenet when AOL opened up to the internet.

It was... painful.

[bitterfun.livejournal.com]

....you have cable and you're still using AOL?!?!??

That's some epic fail there.

High speed cable can make your world joyful again. You won't have to CONVERT movies to DVDs you can simply download them.

[mouser.livejournal.com]

Compuserve *became* AOL reskinned. It used to be where all the techies (or managment techies) went until AOL bought them.

[wxgeek.livejournal.com]

asdf.

now I feel like a jerk.

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

oh now THAT is helpful! thank you!

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

oh, shush. i laughed. :)

i'm brain damaged, NOT humor impaired. the things i say after i've walked into a wall prove that... "it jumped out in front of me, i swear!" :D

(you arent the first person who's asked that question *grins*

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

i have the high speed cable. i dont have the high speed computer. (and this one is wonky cause of water spillage. ferfukssake. gotta love a hand spasm LOL)

the convert is from VHS movies i already own..NEATO toy that we got that will dub them directly. :)

[lolotehe]

Ah yes, the Eternal September....

[alexanderc.livejournal.com]

What's disturbing is that I still remember my Compuserve ID. I also remember when they finally started allowing email to move off the service to the rest of the Internet.

[lolotehe]

I still remember my password

terminal:cancer

hyuck hyuck hyuck

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Isn't it "The Microsoft" ?

[captpackrat.livejournal.com]

People still use AOL?

I used to collect all the AOL discs they sent to me. I filled an entire CD-R spindle and then some.

[peau-de-soie.livejournal.com]

You know what was truly painful? I think I'm still scarred for life--my family and I were on dial up for... probably three years, at least. For free (but still totally, agonizingly brutal). My mother (the goddess of all that is cheap and thrifty) managed to continuously bounce us from AOHell to EarthLink to NetKillMeNowPlease and other dial up companies and use their 2 month free policies--we changed dial up providers (I refuse to call them ISPs) every month or two... only to get more dial up. AHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Every time I hear the dial up sound I run to the nearest closet and fetal position in the dark.