POLL: Have you ever in your life had an AOL account?

[MaxDSP]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
no

 

[FuZoR]

used AOL 2.5 then AOL 3.0 but catwatch kicked me off because i was in "warez" chatrooms.... lol this was 1997-8? I think. OH Well Best thing that ever happen. Never went back to AOL again

 

[Smolek]

When I first got on the internet, yes. After the free trial was over the account was cancelled.

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

Yeah I had aohell for about a month when I needed free internet. I got exactly what I paid for too.

 

[Cat13]

Way back when, yes I did (shudder). Learned very quick that local isp's were much better. When I moved back to the states I signed up for a free AOL account so I could connect from the hotel I was staying in until I moved into my house and got cable, that was 3 years ago (sad, but I shipped my computer in the mail instead of with my houshold goods). What a pain when I tried to cancel, they wouldn't just shut up and cancel it, kept on trying to push free this and that.

 

[BurnItDwn]

NO!
Never!

though in the early 90s I used to get online thru Prodigy (until netcom came around)

 

[Kanalua]

When I got my first computer I used an AOL cd lying around to get free internet for a month...never used again...

 

[TallBill]

paid for 2 of my 8 months of aol.. it sucked

 

[Dacalo]

yep sure did when 33.6 K was considered leet

 

[mpitts]

I haven't used AOL since version 1.4. At the time, it was the only "ISP" available in my area. I got rid of it and used the freenet in my area, which was a great improvement. I remember when AOL users got access to the USENET. Man, what fun that was for a while.

 

[SuepaFly]

Had it for about 6 months when I went to college (at that time they hadn't upgraded yet so we didnt have access to internet). I realized when I got to school I didn't have any means of getting any other internet so I got the free couple months, then I tried to cancel after 2 months and they gave me more free months. The free months are the only thing that made it worth it.

 

[Joker81]

You didn't have the answer I needed.

<begin long story>
When I was about 13 I "borrowed" an AOL account from one of my friends. I didn't have internet. I used his account for awhile of course using up time. I was young and didn't know better that it was stealing. Well I got a paper back from one of my teachers and it said I had to rewrite it. Arrg I hate rewriting only a few others had to. Well I rewrote it, got it back and said to rewrite again. I got so pissed I sent an email saying "Fsck You B!TCH I hate you." Well since it came from my friends account he got the first finger pointed at him. Well he got off pretty quickly cuz he was riding his bike at the time it was sent. So they knew it was someone in our class and since there were only about 16(Private school) it made the pool of suspects very small. Well they said the FBI were gonna look into it, I think mostly cuz of a scare tactic I don't think the feds really go after a $50 aol bill. It was funny in the class they had us all put our a slip of paper into the hat and they wanted the person who did it write that they did it. Probably to try and compare handwritting. Well my mom talked to me and made me tell her everything. I was starting to get paranoid anyways that something bad would happen to me. After the talk with my mom I went back to school and just blurted out in class I did it. In the end I had to pay back the $50 AOL bill. The teacher never did anything bad to me ever, haha I guess retaliation would be too easily target. And the whole thing got blamed on my parents cuz they were going through some troubling times and were split up.

Thatst the first/last time I have ever had an AOL account.
</end long story>

 

[EvilYoda]

yep, when I was young and the net was getting popular, my parents didn't really have a lot of faith in it, nor did they want to spend the money on an ISP yet...so I used a few accounts for a while, then did the NetZero thing, then I don't remember what we had after that. cable now, that's all that matters.

 

[RossGr]

For 6months in 1996

 

[BatmanNate]

Yes, through 1995 or so when it was better than the two alternatives.

 

[pray4mojo]

I had it on my 486.

 

[PTCvette]

I had them for a week when I moved into my apartment, while I was waiting for my DSL stuff to show up... That was over a year ago and they still call me at least once a month to try and get me back, even after I ask them to stop, I'm quite happy with my DSL

Jeff

 

[Lithium381]

yeah, had it for about three years, it was great for me in my early/mid teens, then i grew up....ditched it, and now am much happier

 

[MercenaryForHire]

<AOLer> OMFG NEVAR!!!!!1 </AOLer>



- M4H

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Yes. Using it right now

 

[Kaervak]

Yep. AOL 2.5 baby. With the secret badass programs, like Executioner and the anti-punter programs. Man was that ever lame. But it's still the good old days. I remember downloading the Quake I demo over a 33.6 connection and being amazed that it took up 80 megs. Ahhh, memories

 

[TallBill]

Lol joker81.. damn feds

 

[RIGorous1]

I had an aol account when I first got a computer way back when 14.4k baud modems were $50!!! I used aol to get to netzero, then netzero to altavista, then altavista to various other free isp's, then the isp crash with the tech boom, so I have since gone DSL.

 

[Akira13]

I used AOL until the free trial was up. Then I got a dialup with unlimited access and a no-busy signal policy (unheard of back then...). Those were the days...

 

[EpsiIon]

Sadly, I signed up for a free AOL account when I went home last summer (my parent don't subscribe to an ISP and I didn't want to pay for a modem connection). I used it twice... I just ended up going for much of the summer without internet access.

BTW, have any of you ever noticed how many hours they give you? 1045 hours for 45 days? You could be online for 23.222 hours a day and not go over your limit. The best part, though, is when you call to cancel your free trial and they try to give you two more months... What a desperate company...