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Correction: Free AOL disks felt very pervasive here.
by iechoz6H 5y ago
Correction: Free AOL disks felt very pervasive here.
- glandium 5y agoFree AOL disks were everywhere in France too.
- pjerem 5y agoEspecially in my uncle’s cherry trees to scare the birds.
- dylan604 5y agoFuture archaeologists are going to be sifting through the landfills and determine that AOL discs are going to either be some sort of currency or curious religious artifacts.
- eyelidlessness 5y agoI was on AOL for a big stretch of that time, and those archaeologists wouldn’t be wrong. It was so pervasive that it was a thing of wonder and majesty on the actual www (eg the classic viral Web 1.0 post about getting a license plate starting with ASL).
- Underphil 5y agoI almost remember the exact moment I realised that AOL in fact wasn't the internet but rather some shovelware that sat above it. As soon as I got winsock working I never went back.
- iszomer 5y agoYes, they were everywhere including cereal boxex. But who didn't repurpose these free 3.5" floppy disks to store their stuff back in the day anyway?
- Underphil 5y agoWell, yeah you make a fair point there. I can't speak to who used them but it at least felt like free AOL and Compuserve hours were in heavy use. Might just have been in my tiny sphere though.