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What Happened to America Online? [LGR Tech Tales]
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Date: 2022-04-14
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fanjoy
The funny thing is that they were bundled in almost everything that I'm sure about 80% of them (the disks and packaging) ended up in a landfill somewhere as you only needed one disc, but they were EVERYWHERE for a period of time. But as with many big companies that get an industry off the ground, usually someone else comes in later and steals the show. Today. very few people actually still use the AOL service and yet Microsoft (and to a point, MSN) still exist today. Of course the WWW has also gotten more -generalized- where people just use browsers and not client applications like AOL or CompuServe to access online content, and simply enter an address and are not confined to the services or WWW addresses offered by their service of choice.
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The funny thing is that they were bundled in almost everything that I'm sure about 80% of them (the disks and packaging) ended up in a landfill somewhere as you only needed one disc, but they were EVERYWHERE for a period of time. But as with many big companies that get an industry off the ground, usually someone else comes in later and steals the show. Today. very few people actually still use the AOL service and yet Microsoft (and to a point, MSN) still exist today. Of course the WWW has also gotten more -generalized- where people just use browsers and not client applications like AOL or CompuServe to access online content, and simply enter an address and are not confined to the services or WWW addresses offered by their service of choice.
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CHRISMENENDEZ
Now I know why CompuServe disappeared from Mexico around 1999. They were my second ISP after local company Infosel which offered 10 hours of service a month for today's equivalent of 35 USD, while CompuServe appeared around 1997 and offered unlimited hours for the same price, and at least here in Mexico they didn't force their software on you, you just paid for their dial-up Internet access. AOL tried to enter the Mexican market around the same time and also flooded it with their -free- CDs, but I guess they weren't that successful because some years later they completely banished. In the mid-2000s, broadband DSL connections were becoming affordable so of course a dial-up service didn't make sense anymore.
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Now I know why CompuServe disappeared from Mexico around 1999. They were my second ISP after local company Infosel which offered 10 hours of service a month for today's equivalent of 35 USD, while CompuServe appeared around 1997 and offered unlimited hours for the same price, and at least here in Mexico they didn't force their software on you, you just paid for their dial-up Internet access. AOL tried to enter the Mexican market around the same time and also flooded it with their -free- CDs, but I guess they weren't that successful because some years later they completely banished. In the mid-2000s, broadband DSL connections were becoming affordable so of course a dial-up service didn't make sense anymore.
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scottcol23
Kids now have no IDEA the struggle of dial up internet. it was damn near impossible to connect in the evenings, you would get busy signal after busy signal. Then when you did connect, if anyone picked up the phone, you would be disconnected and the whole busy signal thing would happen again. I remember they days of 14. 4 and 28. 8 modems. loading one image would take about 1. 5 to 2 min. the big time was when we went from 33. 6 to 56k OH YEAH! I used to be on Napster downloading movies that were 750mb files and would take a whole day sometimes two,
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Kids now have no IDEA the struggle of dial up internet. it was damn near impossible to connect in the evenings, you would get busy signal after busy signal. Then when you did connect, if anyone picked up the phone, you would be disconnected and the whole busy signal thing would happen again. I remember they days of 14. 4 and 28. 8 modems. loading one image would take about 1. 5 to 2 min. the big time was when we went from 33. 6 to 56k OH YEAH! I used to be on Napster downloading movies that were 750mb files and would take a whole day sometimes two,
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Patrick
I do call center work it cracks me up how many people still have an aol email address LOL.
I started with prodigy because my aunt worked for them and gave me free access but I mainly used the usenet groups and chat rooms.
I've always thought aol users were -special- in the head, they needed aol because largely they couldn't use the normal internet without it from the people I knew personally.
LOL I never even heard of bebo before this video LOL What a retarded name.
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I do call center work it cracks me up how many people still have an aol email address LOL.
I started with prodigy because my aunt worked for them and gave me free access but I mainly used the usenet groups and chat rooms.
I've always thought aol users were -special- in the head, they needed aol because largely they couldn't use the normal internet without it from the people I knew personally.
LOL I never even heard of bebo before this video LOL What a retarded name.
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AKShamu28
Relatively recently, I was playing Overwatch and I ran into Elwood Edwards. I complimented him on his voice, saying that he should be a voice actor, on a podcast, or something, and he was just like, -Yeah, thanks I get that alot! I actually used to be the voice of America Online. - we had a relatively short discussion for a few minutes and it kinda just blew my mind that I randomly bumped into a legend through Overwatch of all things. Small world we live in, I suppose.
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Relatively recently, I was playing Overwatch and I ran into Elwood Edwards. I complimented him on his voice, saying that he should be a voice actor, on a podcast, or something, and he was just like, -Yeah, thanks I get that alot! I actually used to be the voice of America Online. - we had a relatively short discussion for a few minutes and it kinda just blew my mind that I randomly bumped into a legend through Overwatch of all things. Small world we live in, I suppose.
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Leon
My second bb I. S. P was A. O. L. The software in Windows 98 would often fall over. it was often easier to uninstall / reinstall than to fix its faults. It was good. Then I bought this and my brother and helped me get experience online. The CD could be everywhere, magazines, petrol stations, everywhere. I got my first bb account with A. O. L. It just got too big.
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My second bb I. S. P was A. O. L. The software in Windows 98 would often fall over. it was often easier to uninstall / reinstall than to fix its faults. It was good. Then I bought this and my brother and helped me get experience online. The CD could be everywhere, magazines, petrol stations, everywhere. I got my first bb account with A. O. L. It just got too big.
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lazygamereviews
I think we had AOL after our first ISP, which was a small local provider (which is insane to think about now. AOL and the internet was so new at the time that all the things which are now obsolete, archaic or simply tiny were huge and exciting then. And I definitely ran up my parent's bill playing Splatterball.
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I think we had AOL after our first ISP, which was a small local provider (which is insane to think about now. AOL and the internet was so new at the time that all the things which are now obsolete, archaic or simply tiny were huge and exciting then. And I definitely ran up my parent's bill playing Splatterball.
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TheBlackMamba
Imagine receiving a floppy disk that would potentially have one megabyte worth of data for an upgrade and then getting multiple of them because of all their updates and then trying to get promos for that such as 500 minutes free after this upgrade. Yes internet used to be f------ prepaid just like our cell phones
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Imagine receiving a floppy disk that would potentially have one megabyte worth of data for an upgrade and then getting multiple of them because of all their updates and then trying to get promos for that such as 500 minutes free after this upgrade. Yes internet used to be f------ prepaid just like our cell phones
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Pete
$15/hr. This is where the rest of you generations can shut up about how hard you had it. Generation X here: We were expected to pay FIFTEEN DOLLARS PER HOUR for a precious trickle of a connection that could finish downloading a 640x480 image in about an hour. Uphill through the snow both ways. Enjoy swapping your memes!
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$15/hr. This is where the rest of you generations can shut up about how hard you had it. Generation X here: We were expected to pay FIFTEEN DOLLARS PER HOUR for a precious trickle of a connection that could finish downloading a 640x480 image in about an hour. Uphill through the snow both ways. Enjoy swapping your memes!
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Browns
After moving on from a Commodore 64 and then a C128, I got my first 436 pc and moved from QLink to CompuServe. which was better. but with the barrage of disks in the mail, I tried out AOL from the mid 90's until the early 2000's. when the online scene began to change. and smart phones began to take over.
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After moving on from a Commodore 64 and then a C128, I got my first 436 pc and moved from QLink to CompuServe. which was better. but with the barrage of disks in the mail, I tried out AOL from the mid 90's until the early 2000's. when the online scene began to change. and smart phones began to take over.
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