Have you ever had an AOL account

[Syringer]

I had one, back in the 3rd grade about 12 years ago..it was cancelled after the free trial and then my parents got it again a few years later for a few years.

Ah those were the days. I was quite an online pimp at 12 years of age.

a/s/l?

 

[Beller0ph1]

Heh, yeah, I remember those days. We actually paid for the service. It was my only gateway to the internet back then. Unfortunately I wasn't savvy enough to know Prodigy.

Oh, and welcome back.

 

[raildogg]

sup?

71/f/utah

u?

 

[MoPHo]

I did once pay for AOL...then I stole my soul back and purchased teh Cable connection...

Ironically, the same time i got teh cable connection, my grades started dropping...

 

[Malak]

Absolutely. Until the games went pay2play, AOL was teh roxors. I ruled at cyberstrike.

 

[Ricemarine]

ahh yes. when we were using 14.4 kbps modems...

and 1 mb downloads took at least an hour...
Blah.

Then FreeInternet or something like that.
Then Netzero.
Then MSN..
Then comcast.

 

[n7]

I used AOL to make $20

There was a stupid promo @ a retail store here where if you signed up for a free month trial AOL Max (security software bs), you'd get a $20 gift card.

Course, i cancelled the next week

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Never had AOL at all, not even for a trial! :Q

Used Compuserve for quite a while till AOL bought them out, I think we were with AT&T after that for quite a while, now hopping between Road Runner and Earthlink depending on deals.

 

[Dangerer]

tried aols free 45 day trial once... fcksers charged my cc $33 and refused to refund it the most I ever paid for dial up evar. btw this was 2 months ago

 

[Blayze]

We switched from Prodigy to AOL and had them for about a year before switching again to WOW. I still remember getting charged $1 an hour after like 10 or 15 "free" hours.

After we quit AOL kept billing us for around 6 months. It was a hassle to finally get rid of them.

 

[Bootprint]

I paid for AOL once, way back probably '91 or '92. They said they had 9600 baud, but the local toronto numbers were only 2400, which made it brutal with the graphics they used and would cache everytime you went to a new area.

 

[StevenYoo]

i used AOL 1.6 for DOS on a 2400 baud modem.

man i thought i was BADASS back then.

 

[YoshiSato]

Originally posted by: StevenYoo
i used AOL 1.6 for DOS on a 2400 baud modem.

man i thought i was BADASS back then.

He said baud. :laugh:

 

[TallBill]

paid for aol for 2 out of 10 months.

 

[ironchefjon]

1024 free hours!!!

Good-bye.

 

[jadinolf]

I had one in early '96 when everyone was having troubles connecting.

Hangs head in shame.

 

[Schadenfroh]

nope

 

[Zap]

Never.

Started my online "life" back around 1991 with a shell account on a university VAX/VMS machine using 2400 dial-up. They eventually upgraded to a PC running BSD and I upgraded to 14.4. After college, spent some time on BBSes that had Fidonet gateways (or whatever it was called) for internet email and newsgroups. Then came a shell account on Delphi. After that, a dial-up 28.8 using an account with a local start-up ISP, accessing the net through Netscape 2.0 with dialer, Eudora, Free Agent and Windows 3.11. That ISP was run by a scam artist, so my repair shop opened our own ISP (Brawley Online which we have since sold) and I was flying high connected at x2 speeds to our USR equipment (Total Control chassis using PRI, plus some older stuff using BRI ISDN). When Adelphia offered cable internet, I was all over it like stink on sh1t at 1.5M down and 128k up. It's been broadband from then on.

 

[mpitts]

Yup. In fact, I was a "beta tester" for version 1.4 of the software and received free time. I was only with them for about 3 months then signed up for the freenet, which was the only way you could connect to the internet in my area back then.

 

[tami]

Originally posted by: Bootprint
I paid for AOL once, way back probably '91 or '92. They said they had 9600 baud, but the local toronto numbers were only 2400, which made it brutal with the graphics they used and would cache everytime you went to a new area.

i think your years are wrong. AOL was called Promenade (for IBM PS/1s) and Q-Link in 91/92.

it became known as AOL in 93. at that time, it was $9.95 for the first 5 hours and $6 for each additional hour. i actually paid... for awhile... good thing i wasn't too addicted and didn't have a phone line dedicated to the internet.

still, where's the option for "yes, i had it, and i had a free account too?"

i did some remote staff work for AOL once. i never had problems dialing in because there was a free toll-free number for us. it was nice.

 

[nakedfrog]

I used it in 98 when I first moved here and wanted to figure out who the best local provider was. I had it for three or four months and never paid, because every time I called to cancel, they offered me another free month. After that, I finally said that I didn't want it at all and just cancel me.

 

[Hammerhead]

The only reason I used AOL was for the warez/mm rooms...then I dumped it after discovering usenet

 

[Gillbot]

Originally posted by: Hammerhead
The only reason I used AOL was for the warez/mm rooms...then I dumped it after discovering usenet

 

[TBone48]

I signed up for a free trial in '99. Cancelled 1 week later and tried prodigy. Cancelled because of dropped connections and went to Mindspring, stayed with them after Earthlink bought it, and switched to Optimum the day it became available.

 

[Anubis]

never