aol ? wow...haven't had it since sometime in the 90's....is it still dial up ?

AOL stopped selling dial-up 3 years ago. People still use it, but they no longer sell it.

AOL is a lot of things that most people don't realize.

Mapquest
AIM
ICQ
Winamp
Engadget (Weblogs)
TMZ
Truveo
Platform-A (largest ad network behind google)
CNN
Netscape
Moviephone
Asylum
ATDN (one of the largest IP backbones on the planet)
etc.....

AOL stopped selling dial-up 3 years ago. People still use it, but they no longer sell it.

AOL is a lot of things that most people don't realize.

Mapquest
AIM
ICQ
Winamp
Engadget (Weblogs)
TMZ
Truveo
Platform-A (largest ad network behind google)
CNN
Netscape
Moviephone
Asylum
ATDN (one of the largest IP backbones on the planet)
etc.....

Remember all the original providers? Prodigy? Compuserve? America Online? There were a couple more...

When getting online in the middle of the night was impossible because it would wake everybody up...


I imitate this on a weekly basis, probably. Fun to incorporate into beatboxing and seeing if anybody notices.

Back when the internet was comprised of what....50 pages from 5 Universities?

I built my first computer I think in 1988 or 89....386 with two 256 k memory sticks (had to be in matched pairs), and a 512 k hard drive. DOS was the operating system. EVERYTHING had to be configured manually...IRQs, DMAs and God forbid there was a conflict.

A couple of years later, I went to a 386 with an internal co-processor and Seagate came out with a whopping 1 meg hard drive. the pair of 8 meg memory sticks were almost 400 bucks! But windows 311 smoked! And that computer had a modem! WOO HOO! Dial-up, 8 bit.....The conflicts took me a week to sort out with that one. I wrote a batch file to start 311 which said, "what is your command master?" I had to type back, "Open the Window, bitch!" The 311 start up read, "Anything for you master." My ex wasnt amused.....but she laughed like hell went I got my first virus....The Monkey virus......