Does Using an AOL Email Address Suggest You're a Tech Dinosaur?

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @05:56AM from the back-in-the-day dept.

Nerval's Lobster writes: Despite years of layoffs and tumbling net worth, AOL seemed to get a new lease on life this week when Verizon bought it for $4.4 billion. But even if AOL's still alive, using an AOL email address has long been seen as a way of signaling that you're stuck in the 1990s. A recent analysis of Dice data found that a mere 1.8 percent of those registering for the site used an AOL address, versus 55 percent for Gmail. For the past several years, Websites from Gizmodo to Lifehacker have all declared that still using an AOL email address is counterproductive, to put it mildly. But is that actually true? Do the people in your life and work actually care whether you use AOL, Hotmail, Gmail, or a custom address, or is the idea of 'email bias' an overblown myth?

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Re:What does it say about you? by omnichad · 2015-05-13 06:17 · Score: 4, Informative

From their marketing:

Unlimited storage, 25 MB of photo and video attachments, advanced spam filters, virus protection
I have no idea if that means 25MB per email or total for your mailbox. I'd hope it was the former. They support POP3 or IMAP.
Their current webmail client seems to be somewhat OK (if not cloned outright from Google and then had banner ads slapped in) - screenshot is over 2 years old:
http://venturebeat.com/2012/07...
I don't think it means they're leading edge in any way, but they're not lagging behind nearly as much as I thought they were.