LGR - Classic AOL on Modern Windows
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Stoned
I started out on AOL 2. 5 on Windows 95 and I was using progs and violating TOS in no time at the age of 10 lol. There used to be mass mail and server programs ppl would use to handle chat requests and automated email forwarding. you could request pirated software from the person running the app and you would get emailed your appz/gamez. ahh the Warez days. I fiddled around in visual basic and made a few of my own and my first website on AOL site builder, then GeoCities or tripod. If you go on oldweb. today and look at Geocities you will see ad's for then bookstore Amazon. I'm guessing all the warez was stored on AOL's servers (they were email attachments) and ppl used phished accounts to run the -servers- and mass mails.
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I started out on AOL 2. 5 on Windows 95 and I was using progs and violating TOS in no time at the age of 10 lol. There used to be mass mail and server programs ppl would use to handle chat requests and automated email forwarding. you could request pirated software from the person running the app and you would get emailed your appz/gamez. ahh the Warez days. I fiddled around in visual basic and made a few of my own and my first website on AOL site builder, then GeoCities or tripod. If you go on oldweb. today and look at Geocities you will see ad's for then bookstore Amazon. I'm guessing all the warez was stored on AOL's servers (they were email attachments) and ppl used phished accounts to run the -servers- and mass mails.
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Se7enthson
I remember being 13 or 14 in 2003- 2004 and meeting my first online gf, she lived in OR I lived in NY, my Stepdad let me call her for 10 min a day when we weren't online chatting. my SN was -BushSuxAss- lol and she randomly IMd me bc her SN was -BushSux4911-. A 13 year old punk rock match made in heaven. We stopped talking after she got mad at me for not making her my #1 spot in my Myspace top 8. Sorry but #1 spot was reserved for my best friend at the time (Who btw 18 years later is still my best friend) Always wondered how your life went -BushSux4911-
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I remember being 13 or 14 in 2003- 2004 and meeting my first online gf, she lived in OR I lived in NY, my Stepdad let me call her for 10 min a day when we weren't online chatting. my SN was -BushSuxAss- lol and she randomly IMd me bc her SN was -BushSux4911-. A 13 year old punk rock match made in heaven. We stopped talking after she got mad at me for not making her my #1 spot in my Myspace top 8. Sorry but #1 spot was reserved for my best friend at the time (Who btw 18 years later is still my best friend) Always wondered how your life went -BushSux4911-
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Dark
The year was 1999. I was in 5th grade and loved Pokemon. I thought computers and AOL were boring but I was just too young to appreciate them. Though one day I happened to fart around looking at the chat rooms and discovered pokemon ones. There were actually lots of different rooms and people who'd roleplay as pokemon, trainers, gym leaders. I used to go into the gym leader rooms and roleplay battle people, and the room creators would sometimes email me badges after I won of some shitty MS Paint badge they created. It was amazing.
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The year was 1999. I was in 5th grade and loved Pokemon. I thought computers and AOL were boring but I was just too young to appreciate them. Though one day I happened to fart around looking at the chat rooms and discovered pokemon ones. There were actually lots of different rooms and people who'd roleplay as pokemon, trainers, gym leaders. I used to go into the gym leader rooms and roleplay battle people, and the room creators would sometimes email me badges after I won of some shitty MS Paint badge they created. It was amazing.
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Browns
For most of us, especially in the LGBT community, AOL was all about the chat rooms. especially if you were closeted. or didn't feel like going out to a gay bar. Lol. It was an opportunity to chat. and occasionally hook-up from the comfort of your home. Lol. Now there are apps on your phones much easier. but there was something exciting about waiting for quite a while while waiting for a pic to download over phone lines one line at a time. until you got to see who you were speaking and flirting with. Lololol
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For most of us, especially in the LGBT community, AOL was all about the chat rooms. especially if you were closeted. or didn't feel like going out to a gay bar. Lol. It was an opportunity to chat. and occasionally hook-up from the comfort of your home. Lol. Now there are apps on your phones much easier. but there was something exciting about waiting for quite a while while waiting for a pic to download over phone lines one line at a time. until you got to see who you were speaking and flirting with. Lololol
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lwvmobile
When we first got an modern computer in 1998 we signed up for AOL. Then the phone bill came in the mail. Needless to say, there wasn't a local dial in number for AOL, and the long distance bill was super high, and my mom flipped. She called up the phone company, and they graciously gave her a refund on most of the long distance part and also set us up for regular dial up Internet.
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When we first got an modern computer in 1998 we signed up for AOL. Then the phone bill came in the mail. Needless to say, there wasn't a local dial in number for AOL, and the long distance bill was super high, and my mom flipped. She called up the phone company, and they graciously gave her a refund on most of the long distance part and also set us up for regular dial up Internet.
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MechaGodJovi
I don't remember if it was through AOL but I remember playing a game on the computer called Acrophobia. You would play against other players by bot ran rooms but still trying to figure out what I played it through.
There was also another word game similiar but had asteroids you could get swept/hit/fall off of or what not I think. Might've been the same game, no clue.
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I don't remember if it was through AOL but I remember playing a game on the computer called Acrophobia. You would play against other players by bot ran rooms but still trying to figure out what I played it through.
There was also another word game similiar but had asteroids you could get swept/hit/fall off of or what not I think. Might've been the same game, no clue.
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Headset
Prior to this video, I actually was able to sign on to AOL 4. 0 in a Windows 98 VM, using my old -Kids Only- screen name. The nostalgia came flooding back. Sadly, I had zero experience with reverse-engineering, archiving, etc. so I wasn't able to save any of that stuff (although I still have the hard disk image from the old VM, so maybe some if it is in there somewhere)
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Prior to this video, I actually was able to sign on to AOL 4. 0 in a Windows 98 VM, using my old -Kids Only- screen name. The nostalgia came flooding back. Sadly, I had zero experience with reverse-engineering, archiving, etc. so I wasn't able to save any of that stuff (although I still have the hard disk image from the old VM, so maybe some if it is in there somewhere)
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ichigokarasu
I started on AOL in late 1993, and I remember the very first video I ever downloaded was a Japanese Fatal Fury Neo Geo commercial, and I remember I could fit one to a floppy, and I was so stoked. And due to the filename character limitation on Win 3. 11, they were all named -FATALF-1. avi-. So every time I'd see the TV show ALF after that, I'd chuckle.
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I started on AOL in late 1993, and I remember the very first video I ever downloaded was a Japanese Fatal Fury Neo Geo commercial, and I remember I could fit one to a floppy, and I was so stoked. And due to the filename character limitation on Win 3. 11, they were all named -FATALF-1. avi-. So every time I'd see the TV show ALF after that, I'd chuckle.
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soupy
Weird that the introduction to the internet for the majority of Americans is so poorly preserved. This feels like a landmark in human communication and connectivity, but basically all of the information & content contained within AOL's -walled garden- is completely lost to time, never archived in anywhere close to its entirety.
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Weird that the introduction to the internet for the majority of Americans is so poorly preserved. This feels like a landmark in human communication and connectivity, but basically all of the information & content contained within AOL's -walled garden- is completely lost to time, never archived in anywhere close to its entirety.
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scottcol23
The reason the user created chat rooms are still going is because people still use AIM ( AOL Instant Messager) and those are created using that service. AIM was a standalone service way back in 1998. I used it all the time back then but never had AOL. We used a local Dial UP company called Trident.
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The reason the user created chat rooms are still going is because people still use AIM ( AOL Instant Messager) and those are created using that service. AIM was a standalone service way back in 1998. I used it all the time back then but never had AOL. We used a local Dial UP company called Trident.
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