One of the earliest consumer internet options, AOL’s dial-up service was once the most common way for people to access the early web.
Goodbye
Today is October 1, 1993.
September is over.
You can finally wake me up
The September that lasted 32 years…
Alas, the damage is done and there’s no going back.
While I hated AOL for reasons, this is the end of an era. RIP
AOL will be remembered more fondly for things like this. But, nobody ever has a fond memory of the software AOL shoved out. It was clampware, unreliable and frequently crashed.
But they gave out nice coasters
Before that, they gave out floppy disks. You could tape over the write protect hole and reuse them.
But they were 720k. Barely usable
They were free and not everything needs 1.44MB.
You could punch a hole in the corner and double the capacity 😁
Eh…I wouldn’t call them “nice”. They were ok. Wouldn’t put them on a nice table.
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Fuck AOL they killed CompuServe.
Someone else remembers CompuServe?!
Back when your email address and username were: 583947690@compuserve.com
Good times!
And Prodigy.
Oh my god that’s the funky shit.
Mad Maze…
I loved CompuServe, back in the day.
So, when the last wagon wheel factory closed down, where there nostalgia pieces in the papers?
I guess not, I just searched and there are still a bunch of places making the wheels.Since there are still horse drawn wagons around there are also still manufacturers for wagon wheels. But there were several opinion pieces in newspapers whenever a new technology took over. I’m sure you can find plenty for the time when cars became mainstream.
Where am I going to get hand crafted dial up though
The Serial Port has some content that may scratch that itch.
Gimme 20 bucks and I’ll come over and screech dialup noises at you while you browse.
Good night, sweet prince.
Alternatively
Several minutes of randomly pitched screeches
Random!? You just don’t speak computer!
Oh stewardess; I speak modem.
Eeee eooooooo bong bong scrrrrrr
Ah man I am saddened by this. I first got on the internet in 1997 at my house on a 14.4k modem using AOL. In 2001 I got cable internet and still used AOL a little. My career now is because learning to code by reading code from AOL Progs in Visual Basic 3.0. Fuck Steve Case!
Steve Case!
Now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.
A long time.
