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AOL Shuts Down CompuServe
Oracle Goddess writes "After 30 years, CompuServe is all but dead, as AOL has pulled the plug on the once-great company. The original CompuServe service, first offered in 1979, provided its users with addresses such as 73402,3633 and was the first major online service. CompuServe users will be able to use their existing CompuServe Classic (as the service was renamed) addresses at no charge via a new e-mail system, but the software that the service was built on has been shut down. Tellingly, the current version of the service's client software, CompuServe for Windows NT 4.0.2, dates back to 1999."
I was born in 1987
Weird, I fucked your mom in 1986....
1997 called, they want their tired joke about everybody on the internets speaking "1337" back.
Repetition does not transform a lie into the truth. - FDR
What's the "get off my lawn" equivalent for young->old
We wouldn't know -- it would be something utterly intelligible to us, but we'd recognize the word "fossil" in it somewhere...
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
I don't know, but we should come up with one. "Go back to the nursing home?"
So you can laugh all you want to...
So I have you to thank for premature baldness?
Congratulations, you can Google!... IIS 2... wow that was a while ago :)
Apparently you can also read his email address in his username tag line! Great job...
(I hope this post didn't come across too "assholish"... I'm just joking around)
Here's to the crazy ones
71350,2360 here. Sometimes I miss the days of terminal emulators and 1200bps modems. Then I remember how long it took to download pr0n, and I don't anymore.
DOWNLOAD ZMODEM! ...NO CARRIER
"Go back to the nursing home"
We're all LOST you insensitive clod!
Nah, it came across with the proper level of assholish.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
I remember all those flame wars on CIS back in the day. And it's still going on, but this time with online forums like the system here on /. and on forums running software like pHpBB and vBulletin.
Whatever happened to Prodigy?
They had a pretty big hit in the 90s that got banned from MTV "Smack my Bitch Up." They're still recording as far as I know, but that was definitely their high point.
We're all LOST you insensitive clod!
No, where are not. We know perfectly well where WE are. But some of those young dorks MOVED EVERYTHING ELSE.
Just remember - just because we've taught you everything you know -
that doesn't mean we've taught you everything *we* know...
young dorks MOVED EVERYTHING ELSE.
the word you where looking for was ' hooligan '...
NOW GET OFF MY LAN!
We wouldn't know -- it would be something utterly intelligible to us, but we'd recognize the word "fossil" in it somewhere...
That's because it will most likely be a mix of vally, redneck, and inner city slang... ...And our reply will sound pompous and faggy to them.
What do you look like? What color are your eyes? What are you wearing? [grin]
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Hi! A/S/L? :p
I like big butts and I cannot lie.