One of the earliest consumer internet options, AOL’s dial-up service was once the most common way for people to access the early web.
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- 5 months
AOL will be remembered more fondly for things like this. But, nobody ever has a fond memory of the software AOL shoved out. It was clampware, unreliable and frequently crashed.
- Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish5 months
Eh…I wouldn’t call them “nice”. They were ok. Wouldn’t put them on a nice table.
- cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish5 months
Before that, they gave out floppy disks. You could tape over the write protect hole and reuse them.
5 monthsYou could punch a hole in the corner and double the capacity 😁
You didn’t need to flip it, 3.5" readers could already read both sides, but the hole or lack of is what told them whether both sides were available. I’ve done it myself.
https://www.webcommand.net/index.php/2019/07/31/does-anyone-remember-the-floppy-disk-punch-notcher/
- very_well_lost@lemmy.worldEnglish5 months
The September that lasted 32 years…
Alas, the damage is done and there’s no going back.
- cman6@lemmy.worldEnglish5 months
Back when your email address and username were: [email protected]
Good times!
Good night, sweet prince.
Alternatively
Several minutes of randomly pitched screeches
- 5 months
Random!? You just don’t speak computer!
- 5 months
With AOL’s exit from dial-up, we are now down to three dial-up ISPs; NetZero, Juno and DSLExtreme.
- lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish5 months
As a worldnet user old school Juno always had this mystic. AOL was always a blind spot though.
- demizerone@lemmy.worldEnglish5 months
Ah man I am saddened by this. I first got on the internet in 1997 at my house on a 14.4k modem using AOL. In 2001 I got cable internet and still used AOL a little. My career now is because learning to code by reading code from AOL Progs in Visual Basic 3.0. Fuck Steve Case!
- AtariDump@lemmy.worldEnglish5 months
Steve Case!
Now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.
A long time.
- Simulation6@sopuli.xyzEnglish5 months
So, when the last wagon wheel factory closed down, where there nostalgia pieces in the papers?
I guess not, I just searched and there are still a bunch of places making the wheels.- 5 months
Gimme 20 bucks and I’ll come over and screech dialup noises at you while you browse.
- Waldelfe@feddit.orgEnglish5 months
Since there are still horse drawn wagons around there are also still manufacturers for wagon wheels. But there were several opinion pieces in newspapers whenever a new technology took over. I’m sure you can find plenty for the time when cars became mainstream.
- 5 months
With a robot beep It dialed one one ooh With a final screech It dialed one one ooh One one oh!
