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Glory Days at AOL

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the last-century dept.

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. Re:Ah yes.... by wo1verin3 · · Score: 4, Informative

    >> I mean what the heck do we do with them.

    We could do these of if it really bothers you join up here.

    These guys have collected 150000+ cd's already to forward to america.... :)

  2. Re:Back in the days by zoobaby · · Score: 2, Informative

    " 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!" Ha...hell my first modem was a 900...I thought that screamed at the time. I remember upgrading to 14.4 and thinking it was the shiznit. There will be others who remember having a 300 modem. Before too many people bag on AOL, they did do something right. They gave us unlimited access for $9.99/mo. (Too bad their networked crashed!) But this did drive competition to offer unlimited access for a fair price.

  3. Re:Ah yes.... by gfody · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think its pretty obvious what to do with them.

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    bite my glorious golden ass.
  4. Another similar book by zephc · · Score: 2, Informative

    I used to work with a fellow who wrote a book about the old days at AOL check it out

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    "I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.