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Old 07-15-2005, 12:52 PM   #51
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50 AOL is 20 years old?
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Old 07-15-2005, 12:56 PM   #52
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i think a lot of you are confusing the WWW with the net
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Old 07-15-2005, 12:58 PM   #53
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AOL went unlimited in 1996... I still remember the dial up busy signal madness like it was yesterday. 9 years, wow.
Yep, it was 96.
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Old 07-15-2005, 01:06 PM   #54
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wether it's 20 years old or 100 years old AOL still sucks and always will.

They do suck, but what the did do was make the internet user-friendly to the masses. They got the internet into every home in America which without them, we might all have different careers now.

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Old 07-15-2005, 01:27 PM   #55
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I get this AOL disk in the mail stating that it's AOL's 20th anniversary. WTF?
Yup, I still have (somewhere) the disks they used to mail for the Commodore 128... It used a fucked up windowing system which I forget the name of...

Compuserve was cirqua 1979, I got my first account in like 83 or 84, around the time of War Games.

20 years old, they are.
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Old 07-15-2005, 01:29 PM   #56
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AOL bought Compuserve, and that makes them 20 years old.
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Old 07-15-2005, 01:33 PM   #57
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aol have been going for 20 years - i heard that in the news one of their first dialup customers finally got connected last week!
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Old 07-15-2005, 01:33 PM   #58
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A little before that. AOL went to unlimited access before then for sure.
actually concentric was the first unlimited national dialup 96 i believe
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Old 07-15-2005, 01:40 PM   #59
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Aol owns compuserve, so it could be because of that

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Old 07-15-2005, 03:07 PM   #60
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CompuServe has nothing to do with the age of AOL ... CompuServe was acquired in the mid/late 90s and had already become a "has been" by then.

20 years / 1985 is absolutely correct ... AOL was first branded as Q-Link, as others have already pointed out ... they then rebranded to America Online (AOL) a few years later...

Members who joined in the first few years (talking late 80s) were given discounts indefinitely when they re-branded to AOL.

Guess I'm showing my age (I'm 33) ... Q-Link / AOL's allure years ago wasn't the internet (they didn't even offer it until later), but rather that they had lots of chatrooms where people could socialize / adult oriented chatrooms; on-line hookups.

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Old 07-15-2005, 03:42 PM   #61
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Actually going back that far it could even have been more standard for 300 baud. I remember bein on Delphi at 300 baud... oof.
Brutal!

I remember when we hit 8300 and you could really surf for porn. Before that it was more surfing for well not really surfing....
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Old 07-15-2005, 06:28 PM   #62
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Old 07-15-2005, 06:30 PM   #63
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Old 07-15-2005, 07:48 PM   #64
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i remember downloading an AOL update on a 1200 baud. Took about 6 hours. LOL.

those were the days..........
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