exactly. this is my parents.. when on the phone leading him to do something on the PC, i would say, open up IE, and i would always hear, 'Welcome', in the background. No dad, not AOL, IE. "Yes, but I have to get on the internet first."

That being said, i still use the email address, but havent been on the 'service' in years.

AOL? is this something new? is it better than my CompuServe?

LOL

I think many people may be grateful for the lifetime supply of drink coasters AOL sent them in the 90s.

What was the other short lived internet service beside Compuserve? I cant remember the name.:confused:

Prodigy.

I think it was around for a long time before AOL got big, but it was more of a super BBS + some Internet than real Internet access from what I recall.

Prodigy


SBC released a re-written version of Prodigy complete with icons a few years back. I don't think that succeded either.

Yep that was it. Thanks

the 1.44 discs got annoying after a while. Once they went to cd's peoples creativity skyrocketed. Those shiney discs imbedded in macrome really got my attention !:eek:

You also had Delphi

That was also back in the days when you could still buy and sell firearms and other gun-related stuff on FeeBay. Ahh, the good old days...

Yea, I bought a pair of jeans via Compuserve at 300 baud in 1983. It took a long time to do anything at 300 baud. They charged by the minute and everything was a text menu. No graphics at all. You could read as fast as it downloaded.

LOLZ. Everyone knows all the cool kids are on Mindspring & Earthlink now. :D

Remember in the early days of Earthlink when the company was fully staffed by Scientologists? Everything you told tech support turned out to be totally your fault. I never used 'em, but had friends who lost a ton of money trying to have Earthlink manage their company sites.

My wifes does. She had AOL before we got married, and she stills wastes $30 of our money on that antiquated, stupid e-mail system every month. I told her many times that we can have up to 5 free email adresses with verizon, that $30/month is $360/yr that she could use towards buying an i-pad...no succes so far. The reason is, they make it difficult to cancel, difficult to transfer address books. The only way this is gonna happen is if I do it for her. We have been married 7 years, 7*360 = $2520 !!!!

Speaking of clever use of AOL discs.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1285961897.jpg

Unsee! Unsee!

Dammit, now I am going to have to find a rusty antique can opener to gouge my eyes out with. Thanks.