Today after many many years I have used up my last AOL CD, I am on my last 1099 hours of free internet. The clock is ticking, I am pondering if I should look into paid internet, or should I use my last two phone calls to AOL where I tell them to cancel my account permanently, and they insist to give me two free extensions of three months each!
Back in 1995 I got my first PC as a gift, my second PC was an offer from MSN to sign up for dial up and get a free E-machine, that lasted only three months, as they expected me to pay, sorry MSN, back to AOL. AOL was always there for me, year after year and CD after CD, they never wanted my money, they wanted me to be a member so bad, it's true they asked for a gap after one year of no pay, but netzero was there to fill up that gap.
Is time to check out that high speed cable internet everyone keeps talking about. what do you think?
Lol. I think I might have some of those disk in my basement. Just think. The blockchain is in the old AOL dial up stage. Once it gets mass adoption we will be rich!
Excellent :D
AOL... are you fucking kidding me? holy shit
oh my god, what a nice trip to memory lane .... that modem was badass !!! I always wanted one, it took a few years until I could get the Sportster 56k V.90, not the more expensive Courrier model like this one !
thanks for the nostalgia and laughs !!!
Steem on ! :D
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Old memories, when you install simple software with bunch of floppy diskettes. and for draw a simple Line write a long code to execute. No internet no wifi. dial up modems and ftps.
How is this post worth 100+$? 343 votes, 166 views. Goes to show something is wrong with steemit's incentives.
That "you've got mail" sound shall never be forgotten. Good times.
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You got it easy, young man. In my time, there was no Internet, and life was not so fast. ;-)
I remember that in the 1970s, on French Navy ships we received messages with a 75 baud telex. We did not need no 56K Modems!!!
Yeah, I'm older too, and I tell the young ones about when we didn't have cable television, microwave ovens, personal computers, and many other things, and they look at me like I'm an alien. lol
Damn, I remember thinking aol was so cool.
You could log on after about a few minutes, go to a chat room and have fun talking to people all around the world, or going to websites, waiting it to load.....and piece by lpiece the page would start to display, man we were flying high!!!
Except when you would get a call and get kicked off!!! 😂😂😂
Thanks for sharing this @joseph! I remember the days when I had to wait for someone to get off the phone before I can connect to the internet!
That brings back some memories...Had most of those disks/discs that are in your photo at one point, but they're obviously long gone by now. The best thing about them was that the floppy disks could be re-formatted and re-used (back when a box of disks actually cost some money).
Memories, sweet memories!
Nice post sir.
hey dear @joseph, ohhh wonderful for sharing old memories. what a time that was, very slow speed internet that time was. every thing changed too much. thanks for sharing such article.
steem on
Oh my!! Welcome to the 20th century.. wait... it's the 21st century.
Dude... it's time to change.
Maybe progress slowly and start with dial-up... high speed may be more than you can handle lol
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Ohh man the good old days of AOL
Nice post. Forget about fibre optics, don't get to hear the great buzzz at connection time.
Haha thanks for sharing this. Ive read aol still makes a pretty penny off people who have just never cancelled there subscription.
Haha, I remember the AOL days! Seems like I had a disk in the mailbox nearly everyday from them. I can still hear the dialup modem connecting. It was like I was traveling to outer space ! lol We have lift-off!
well done bro
Those CD's saved lives..
Lol! Love the tone that you'd hear as you were dialing up to AOL then "you've got mail." So sad when you didn't hear that guy say that upon signing in. I mean, seriously sad. I think the first webpage I looked up was...Oprah. She may have been the first website I heard of way back then. Lol! I remember getting all those free CDs too. AOL was the best (my MIL still uses it - no lie)! :)
Old is gold
This post forced me to remember my dial-up days. 🤗
Nice
A computer without internet is not a "computer" :) I wish Commodore 64 had internet connection :)
I think it's not fast enough just take us money for services often interrupted
Good post
Great post thank u for sharing love it
Great post thank u for sharing love it
Thank you for your post, remembering my childhood. what was the days of limited dialup connections. BTW way i have to check my AOL inbox tonight after 17 years.
Lol, sure, but mehn you really made maximum use of the free AOL packages. Good one
my god you still have these. That's Antiques
Millennials don't know what pain is....
Great Post!
Definitely brought back tons of memories.
Thanks for sharing this fossil.
Steem On :)
great..................
Back in the day AOL and CompuServe were the internet for a WHOLE bunch of people.
Congratulations @joseph!
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I got myself into more shit on AOL. Oh the good old days!!!
Oh, lord, you even have the floppies...that's awesome.
I had to explain to my kid the other day that, when I was a kid, commercials weren't something you could just skip past by pressing the screen.
Oh, lord, you even have the floppies...that's awesome.
I had to explain to my kid the other day that, when I was a kid, commercials weren't something you could just skip past by pressing the screen.
Makes you wonder..... how many companies will survive this blockchain bubble... companies like MSN and Netscape are no longer heard of anymore.
I Congratulate you on this great blog
Keep going my friend
That 56k modem sound brings back so many memories lol
Wow, you are living hi-tec - I am still booting the internet from an audio cassette! :)
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Cheers!
informative post
old is gold
That's a whole lot of dial up!