One of the earliest consumer internet options, AOL’s dial-up service was once the most common way for people to access the early web.
Today is October 1, 1993.
September is over.
You can finally wake me up
The September that lasted 32 years…
Alas, the damage is done and there’s no going back.
Goodbye
While I hated AOL for reasons, this is the end of an era. RIP
AOL will be remembered more fondly for things like this. But, nobody ever has a fond memory of the software AOL shoved out. It was clampware, unreliable and frequently crashed.
But they gave out nice coasters
Eh…I wouldn’t call them “nice”. They were ok. Wouldn’t put them on a nice table.
Before that, they gave out floppy disks. You could tape over the write protect hole and reuse them.
But they were 720k. Barely usable
You could punch a hole in the corner and double the capacity 😁
You couldn’t flip a 3.5in floppy
They were free and not everything needs 1.44MB.
o7
Fuck AOL they killed CompuServe.
Someone else remembers CompuServe?!
Back when your email address and username were: 583947690@compuserve.com
Good times!
Good night, sweet prince.
Alternatively
Several minutes of randomly pitched screeches
