Do you still use America Online?

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I'm so damned old I have an @aol email with my legal name.

Back when you wanted to do that. It's kinda ironic now you never want your real power word on the net but at same time you want to own the emails with that power word so someone can't fake you.
 
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It might just be because of how rural I lived back then, but I never got to experience the flood of AOL cd's. They'd come in the automotive magazines I had subscriptions to sometimes but I never got to experience the biblical deluge that so many did.
 
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about a decade ago one of my dad's friends needed their computer cleaned out due to it running slow. When i went to their bedroom to take a look at it, I encountered the wife who was in the middle of using AOL. I took one look at her, and then the husband, said "... you really don't use AOL still, do you?", they sincernely said yes, and then I had to explain to them how web browsers work. After that, I unplugged the tower, took it with me, and IMMEDIATELY uninstalled AOL along with a bunch of junk programs they either didnt use or "accidentally" downloaded.
 
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SSF2T Old User said:
about a decade ago one of my dad's friends needed their computer cleaned out due to it running slow. When i went to their bedroom to take a look at it, I encountered the wife who was in the middle of using AOL. I took one look at her, and then the husband, said "... you really don't use AOL still, do you?", they sincernely said yes, and then I had to explain to them how web browsers work. After that, I unplugged the tower, took it with me, and IMMEDIATELY uninstalled AOL along with a bunch of junk programs they either didnt use or "accidentally" downloaded.
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Around the same time period, my boomer co-worker was complaining of the same thing. I looked at her computer and she had so many toolbars installed, she could barely see the browser window.
 
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My family had it as our provider until about 2001. I think the last time I checked my AOL email or popped into one of their chat rooms was in 2005
 
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Talking about old stuff, a friend of mine back when Gmail was invite only... he had bobmarley as his email, he sold the name for some good money.
 
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I don't use AOL, but I still pay for it because I've been on hold for the past 20 years trying to cancel my service.
 
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Hm... I remember that one. Except for one of my sisters, everyone used an account with some form of my name in it. Even after we stopped using the client, my parents still used the e-mail service.

I remember that I couldn't use Internet Explorer without having already connected to AOL-- not until we got DSL. And I remember discovering Neopets somehow, and spending about the entire day on it in my parents' room. The very first account I made, I abandoned it along with the site for some time because I made four pets and I was too scared of the concept of abandoning them (they really made you feel bad about it). I made a number of accounts before I bothered to ask my dad to help me verify the last and longest-lasting account I made.

Anybody here ever use their kid and teen derivatives?

I remember there being a "Fire Child" or what have you 3D game series. I think I ended up playing that on the account of the sister I mentioned before-- I think it was because you specifically had to have the account as a "teen" account to access that section of the service in the first place.

I tried finding that game recently, but there's hardly a trace of it.

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I don't use AOL, but I still pay for it because I've been on hold for the past 20 years trying to cancel my service.
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...you had to pay?

I don't recall my old man being stingy about time spent... shoot, I don't even remember him talking about paying for it.
 
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