Glory Days at AOL?
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wo1verin3
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· Score: 3, Funny
When the hell did they reach glory?
In fact, I didn't even know they've reached tolerable!
Re:Glory Days at AOL?
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ctrl-alt-elite
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· Score: 5, Funny
Feh! You young whippersnapper! You wouldn't know glory if it bit you on the foot! Why, in my days of being on AOL, you could make a username WITHOUT appending a long string of numbers to the end. And you could jump in a chat room WITHOUT getting hit on by 48 year-old marines. And spam was still the name of a canned 'meat' product!
That was true glory, not the stuff in that article...
</grandpa simpson>
Re:Glory Days at AOL?
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Faust7
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· Score: 4, Funny
Those were the glory days. A new floppy disk in the mail every week. Unlike those crappy cd-roms in tins we get now. I mean what the heck do we do with them.
One new floppy disk a week!? I remember when I used to get 5. I'm on a lot of mailing lists. But worth it, being I've only ever purchased one box of floppy disks since 1993!
What do you do with the cd's? Coasters! I worked at an ISP and we had them all over, cheap and easy to replace.
But the best thing to do is to wrap a slinky around a can (Dr. Pepper in my case). Then use each of the openings to put cd's in. put it on top of a monitor and people won't wave there hands around in your office for fear of knocking 100+ cd's across the room!
In 1998, AOL chairman Steve Case and his wife, Jean, gave over $8 million to a Christian school that, according to its own Web site, is a division of a virulently anti-gay church that seeks to "cure" homosexuals.
I guess this is why there are no more glory holes at AOL.
David Colburn's stature at AOL grew to such epic proportions that he earned a nickname: God.
Hey. That's reserved for sysadmins.
Not so. According to the infamous job description sheet:
http://neil.franklin.ch/Jokes_and_Fun/Find_Your_Ro le.html
(there are many versions of that sheet, with anything from executive secretaries to programmers to users being the ultimate end-point. Having dealt with executive secretaries, they're not far off the mark, they wield the most amazing power- and abuse it handily. Hell hath no fury like a pissed off executive secretary.)
Ah, the good old days...
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 5, Funny
Ah, the glory days of AOL. The slowness. The service drops. The browser functionality that was always just a generation behind what non-idiots were using. Those were the days...
*weeps*
Re:Ah, the good old days...
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sharkey
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· Score: 1, Funny
Ah, the glory days of AOL. The slowness. The service drops. The browser functionality that was always just a generation behind what non-idiots were using. Those were the days...
Yesterday?
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
what about MY glory days?
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 2, Funny
i've been waiting for 3 weeks now to hear if i have a job with them... i've gotten the thumbs up, but it's caught up in "finance"...
Kids these days are spoiled. Back in the good 'ol days when we all had 14.4 modems and we had to walk fifty miles in snow and ice just to pick it up. If we wanted to talk on the phone, tough luck!
Too bad today's internet sucks!
BAH! You yourself was spoiled! I remember hooking up to a BBS at 300baud
300 Baud? Talk about spoiled. That was probably on a CRT too!
We used to love the comforting sounds of a 110 baud TeleType. Ch-Thump! Ch-Thump! The Bzzzt Bzzzt Bzzzt of the 300 baud dot matrix version just wasn't quite the same, and you couldn't make it sound like a slot machine by sending a bunch of nulls to it: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Thump! Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Thump! Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Thump! Ding! Ding! Ding!
Playing music and printing pictures on the line printer --- now those were the days!
the glory days, like when...
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rock_climbing_guy
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· Score: 3, Funny
someone wrote a little-known program called "AOHell?"
Well, I never! I'm upset since you young guys hijacked television..
err...wait
no...you can have it, changed me mind.. keep on hijacking it lads! Used to be we had one fuzzy channel that only ran to 10 or 11 or midnight, then went off the air and showed nifty test patterns, and programs that mostly sucked, now we have hundreds of programs that mostly suck! Now THAT's tech progress!
Not!
Radio! errr... no... wait......
Newspapers!...rats..... hmmmm
Movies!....uhhh... nooo.... hmmmmmm
Girls! There ya go, still exactly the same as the "good old" days! And now with even *less* clothes!
Instant Message excerpt when i was 15 yrs old back in 1997 (Seriously!)
My SN: Oh yeah baby that was good did you like it?
Sexychick: Yes you hunk!
My SN: You want to do this again next time? =)
Sexychick: HAHAHA You F*G I'm a guy AHAHA you loser AHAHAHA!
My SN: haha I knew that! was trying to trick you too! Hey man, this is neat, let's do this to other losers just to screw them up.....
Sexychick: shutup. bye
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When the hell did they reach glory?
In fact, I didn't even know they've reached tolerable!
Those were the glory days. A new floppy disk in the mail every week. Unlike those crappy cd-roms in tins we get now. I mean what the heck do we do with them.
In 1998, AOL chairman Steve Case and his wife, Jean, gave over $8 million to a Christian school that, according to its own Web site, is a division of a virulently anti-gay church that seeks to "cure" homosexuals.
I guess this is why there are no more glory holes at AOL.
David Colburn's stature at AOL grew to such epic proportions that he earned a nickname: God.
Hey. That's reserved for sysadmins.
The coolest voice ever.
AOL never had glory. Glory was when Usenet had never seen a "me too", and barely had a dozen examples of the extremely annoying "LOL" or "ROTFLMAO".
AOL is to computer culture what Little Boy was to Hiroshima.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
Ah, the glory days of AOL. The slowness. The service drops. The browser functionality that was always just a generation behind what non-idiots were using. Those were the days...
*weeps*
i've been waiting for 3 weeks now to hear if i have a job with them... i've gotten the thumbs up, but it's caught up in "finance"...
bleh.
back in the good old days (the 1990s)."
Kids these days are spoiled. Back in the good 'ol days when we all had 14.4 modems and we had to walk fifty miles in snow and ice just to pick it up. If we wanted to talk on the phone, tough luck!
Too bad today's internet sucks!
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Go canucks, habs, and sens!
someone wrote a little-known program called "AOHell?"
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Back in the good 'ol days when we all had 14.4 modems and we had to walk fifty miles in snow and ice just to pick it up.
Pfeh. We had to manually carry our packets through the snow and hand-deliver them to the other computer(s). Didn't even have "baud."
The coolest voice ever.
the only times I could login was between 11:00pm and 5 AM. Those were the good ole days....
No one will look in there to steal your Altoids.
However, the possibility of someone unknowningly throwing all your Altoids away in a fit of anti-AOL hostility is distinct.
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
Well, I never! I'm upset since you young guys hijacked television..
...rats..... hmmmm
err...wait
no...you can have it, changed me mind.. keep on hijacking it lads! Used to be we had one fuzzy channel that only ran to 10 or 11 or midnight, then went off the air and showed nifty test patterns, and programs that mostly sucked, now we have hundreds of programs that mostly suck! Now THAT's tech progress!
Not!
Radio! errr... no... wait......
Newspapers!
Movies!....uhhh... nooo.... hmmmmmm
Girls! There ya go, still exactly the same as the "good old" days! And now with even *less* clothes!
Instant Message excerpt when i was 15 yrs old back in 1997 (Seriously!)
My SN: Oh yeah baby that was good did you like it?
Sexychick: Yes you hunk!
My SN: You want to do this again next time? =)
Sexychick: HAHAHA You F*G I'm a guy AHAHA you loser AHAHAHA!
My SN: haha I knew that! was trying to trick you too! Hey man, this is neat, let's do this to other losers just to screw them up.....
Sexychick: shutup. bye
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I thought it was America Off Line?
*shrugs*
Does anyone else think that Myer Berlow looks like the "Coffee Guy" from Mad TV?
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.