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Glory Days at AOL

Isaac-Lew writes "Found this article at the Washington Post about the wheeling and dealing at AOL back in the good old days (the 1990s)."

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  1. Ah yes.... by cageyjames · · Score: 5, 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.

  2. Glory Holes? by Radi-0-head · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Deification by Faust7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    David Colburn's stature at AOL grew to such epic proportions that he earned a nickname: God.

    Hey. That's reserved for sysadmins.

  4. Re:Glory Days at AOL? by ctrl-alt-elite · · 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>

  5. Ah, the good old days... by Anonymous Coward · · 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*

  6. Back in the days by Goalie_Ca · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!
  7. the internet! by zogger · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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