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2.1 million people still use dial-up internet from AOL
Posted on 1/25/17 at 1:10 pm
Posted on 1/25/17 at 1:10 pm
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Posted on 1/25/17 at 1:19 pm to pioneerbasketball
How many of them are no longer alive? I read an article about this a few months back
Posted on 1/25/17 at 1:25 pm to pioneerbasketball
Actually had one of our CS associates approach me saying she couldn't email a customer.
The customer has an AOL email address.
I just guffawed at the revelation and walked away.
Posted on 1/25/17 at 1:33 pm to stat19
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Posted on 1/25/17 at 3:18 pm to pioneerbasketball
Those disks made good coasters.
Posted on 1/25/17 at 3:26 pm to pioneerbasketball
I can't fap on dial-up and I don't see how I ever did back in the day.
Posted on 1/25/17 at 4:51 pm to drewnbrla
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Posted on 1/25/17 at 5:15 pm to stat19
My father in law still has an AOL email.
Posted on 1/25/17 at 7:01 pm to pioneerbasketball
We had a client that had some colocated equipment at the Windstream data center inside the galleria in Metairie. When I went to visit, we walked past a row of racked equipment and the onsite data center guy said the entire row was for AOL dialup. Blew my mind.
Posted on 1/25/17 at 7:44 pm to pioneerbasketball
I still have an AOL address. I only use it for when signing up for something and anticipating scores of spam and other bullshite, but I can still login to it. One of the characters in it was my age at the time.. Literally had it for the last 22 years. Son of a bitch I'm old 
Anyways, a/s/l...?
Anyways, a/s/l...?
Posted on 1/26/17 at 10:35 am to Giantkiller
I still use my aol address as my main email. I knowsome people may snicker but it's the address that all of my friends and relatives know so why should I change?
Posted on 1/26/17 at 11:57 am to pioneerbasketball
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I can't understand how I gamed online, downloaded full movies and music either .
One reason is the internet is no longer designed for dial up.
Dial up didn't get slower, but web pages just got fancier and file sizes got larger.
Posted on 1/26/17 at 12:34 pm to pioneerbasketball
I still have one of those AOL discs in the shrink wrap, mint condition if you will.
Brought back all kinds of nostalgia.
Brought back all kinds of nostalgia.
Posted on 1/26/17 at 1:38 pm to johnnydrama
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why should I change?
You know you can set it to forward to another address, right?
Posted on 1/26/17 at 2:18 pm to pioneerbasketball
[img]Rural Americans often have no access to high-speed internet, or it can be expensive and unreliable.[/img]
No one makes these rednecks live the "salt life"
No one makes these rednecks live the "salt life"
Posted on 1/27/17 at 12:00 pm to pioneerbasketball
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If you only use the internet for email and reading the news, there’s no reason to pay for an expensive high-speed package.
I wouldn't want to use dial-up for anything other than email. So it's kind of a "chicken or the egg" argument.
There's lots of things I wouldn't use the internet or my phone for if the internet or my phone didn't allow me to do it.
Posted on 1/27/17 at 1:34 pm to colorchangintiger
quote:Yeah, I guess I'm just lazy. Or stubborn. Or both.
You know you can set it to forward to another address, right?
Posted on 1/28/17 at 10:59 am to johnnydrama
A surprising number of my clients have an aol email address. Almost all of them are old.
Posted on 1/28/17 at 11:04 am to Wayne Campbell
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I wouldn't want to use dial-up for anything
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Posted on 1/29/17 at 6:24 pm to pioneerbasketball
This is another version of the old ladies who were still paying AT&T $100s a year to lease phones after the 1984 breakup.
Some paid thousands of dollars over the years to lease a $10 phone.
In 2007 AT&T still had 580,000 phone-leasing customers.
LINK
Some paid thousands of dollars over the years to lease a $10 phone.
In 2007 AT&T still had 580,000 phone-leasing customers.
LINK
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