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Comments on news posted 2011-08-18 14:34:23: Time Warner Cable has been talking about a brand change ever since they were spin off from Time Warner back in 2008. Much like their DOCSIS 3. ..


Koil
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Informative article! Learn something new every day!

Never knew that was an eye and an ear...

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Re: Informative article! Learn something new every day!

Knew it was an eye, but never picked up on the Ear..

MEEP MEEP!

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It is akin to the Masonic Eye of Providence on top of the pyramid (nose). It evokes the true meaning of triple-play:

Watching...
Listening...
Sniffing...

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What is everyone talking about??

All i see is ROADRUNNER (Like in the cartoon)

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MediaOne Roadrunner was our first internet provider when we had the Shark Fin Modem, it then became AT&T Broadband for us and then Comcast.
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Re: Informative article! Learn something new every day!

said by Edrick:

MediaOne Roadrunner was our first internet provider when we had the Shark Fin Modem, it then became AT&T Broadband for us and then Comcast.

That covers the same path as up here in Ohio... My fondest memories were from MediaOne, when cable modems were brand spanking new... Not to mention the LanCity modem was a tank and one could easily kill someone with it:



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said by talz13:

said by Edrick:

MediaOne Roadrunner was our first internet provider when we had the Shark Fin Modem, it then became AT&T Broadband for us and then Comcast.

That covers the same path as up here in Ohio... My fondest memories were from MediaOne, when cable modems were brand spanking new... Not to mention the LanCity modem was a tank and one could easily kill someone with it:

[att=1]

You get that from an episode of Hoarders?

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said by Koil:

said by talz13:

said by Edrick:

MediaOne Roadrunner was our first internet provider when we had the Shark Fin Modem, it then became AT&T Broadband for us and then Comcast.

That covers the same path as up here in Ohio... My fondest memories were from MediaOne, when cable modems were brand spanking new... Not to mention the LanCity modem was a tank and one could easily kill someone with it:

[att=1]

You get that from an episode of Hoarders?

No kidding! Look at that rat's nest behind the modem!!
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Nah, just a google for LanCity on the image results

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said by Edrick:

MediaOne Roadrunner was our first internet provider when we had the Shark Fin Modem, it then became AT&T Broadband for us and then Comcast.

Good times. I was on Multimedia Roadrunner which changed to Cox Roadrunner before it was dropped sometime in 2002. I believe that only OKC and Wichita had the Cox Roadrunner brand. Used a Surfboard 3100.

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MediaOne Roadrunner was our first internet provider when we had the Shark Fin Modem, it then became AT&T Broadband for us and then Comcast.

Ahhh, those were the "good ole days"... slower, perhaps, but still more fun than now. I miss that "reckless abandon" feeling that came with having broadband way back when.
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Napster and 10meg advertised IRC feeds for MP3.

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Does this mean I have to stop referring to Roadrunner as Roadkill?

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said by Koil:

Never knew that was an eye and an ear...

It always reminded me of the "Eye of Horus" hieroglyph.

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said by Koil:

Never knew that was an eye and an ear...

That is exactly what I thought too. In looking at it again, I still don't see the ear ...

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Re: Informative article! Learn something new every day!

I'm pretty sure Picasso could see it... if he looked really, really hard.

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said by mod_wastrel:

I'm pretty sure Picasso could see it... if he looked really, really hard.

I see it now. If you take the top line off, it does look like an ear.
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Good for Verizon markets.

At least they're no longer falsely advertising in markets where they have to compete with Verizon FiOS. Verizon is the Road Runner and Time Warner is without a doubt the coyote in those markets.

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Have some food for thought....


TWC Logo

Naruto Logo
They look almost similar....

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Re: Have some food for thought....

It does but its up side down. And I never noticed an ear until a poster above mentioned it. Yes I can see it now.

An Eye & Ear for the logo.

Beep Beep

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Re: Have some food for thought....

i allways thought it was eye, ear, and mouth, symbolizing tripple play, eye=internet, ear=voice, mouth=tv, or something like that

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Re: Have some food for thought....

Of all things, why would mouth=tv?
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...and all of these year I only saw the eye. Now I can see the ear too!

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Re: Have some food for thought....

I dont see the ear.
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Re: Have some food for thought....

Start at the center of the swirl and take the vertical path.
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except I think the TWC eye/ear logo predates the cartoon by far.
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Something to go with usage based billing..

Act fast, I hear AT&T and Verizon might steal this one first..
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Now if they would fix their DNS

If you really want a "road-runner", change your DNS to something other than their system; otherwise you might believe you are really connected to the "Juno" spaceship to Jupiter which will be traveling for five years!

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Re: Now if they would fix their DNS

Does this mean we will have to change our e-mail address someday? How about whoever@groundsquirrel.com? Oh wait, that won't do because there is already a groundsquirrel.org.

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New change, same system

"create excitement around the eye-ear symbol,"

Always watching, always listening....
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said by exocet_cm:

Always watching, always listening....

Same could be said for the cops
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Sooo..

What is the new name for Roadrunner replacement brand?

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Bright House Networks

Whats this mean for Bright House Networks? Do they continue to use the Road Runner brand or do they change as well?
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Probably a Matter of $$

I'm guessing that the deal which spun off Time Warner Cable from Time Warner only permitted TWC to use Time Warner's trademarks for free for only so long and that period is coming to a close. So moving off the Road Runner to something else is a matter of not spending money for something that used to be without cost.

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Dropping RR

So when do we have to change our email address AGAIN?

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RoadRunner Logo

by using the RoadRunner logo they pay $$$$ to Time Warner/Warner Bros to license the image. by going to the "eye" that TWC already owns; they don't have to pay for it. But not only are they getting rid of the RoadRunner in NEO/WPA Ohio they're calling the Internet its new name; Time Warner Cable BroadBand. NOT Internet nor RoadRunner.

And Xfinity isn't nothing more than product brand NOT the name as the article suggests by calling Comcast: Comcast Xfinity. But infinity means limitless- which Comcast is saying they have no limits

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"Did you just flip me the bird? Yes you did! You just flipped me
the bird!"

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Brand changes

My first broadband connection was the Excite @Home which folded into mchsi.com (Mediacom, when i was living in iowa). maybe time warner will do twchsi(dot)com. My current provider is Comcast but my grandmother in Maine has TWC. Back in the '90s Cable systems changed hands all the time, I remember the system in my hometown of Cedar Rapids, IA was owned by Cox, TCI, AT&T Broadband, then current owner Mediacom. The city had an overbuilder which was McLeod USA that went under and was bought by I'm On. When I moved to Springfield MA the system was AT&T broadband but was sold to Comcast. According to forums it used to be Continental Cablevision then MediaOne before AT&T broadband. It also used to have a dual cable system with those annoying A/B switches and was analog only with no HSI until the end of 2002. Right after they replaced the Dual cable system, Comcast took over.

Brand changes in the cable industry occur like clockwork.
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New branding

Sometimes in business rebranding is a good idea to reduce confusion with customers. However, if time warner really wants to be "innovative" which is rather missing in most companies nowadays then why not make it a little more bold and actually introduce new technology to really make the new brand exciting. Because otherwise continuing with the same old Docsis 2.0 thats been around for 10+ years is just continuing to recycle the dirty dish water and then wondering why its dirty and whining when it needs to be changed for fresh water. A lot of companies are doing that nowadays. They have trillions of dollars they won't spend on anything. What are they waiting for? Talk about an economic stimulus package. The corporations complain that Washington's stimulus didn't work. But then the corporations aren't even willing to try to stimulate the economy themselves.
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If a company just wants to rehash the same old crap over and over with a stable bottom line then maybe they should get into the casket and funeral business. Or how about making clothes pins or even lawnchairs. Well, but then I forgot that they don't even want to do that in America anymore cause they can't get away with paying us all .50/hr like they can in China. And have unsafe work conditions like they do in China. Its just so much easier to sit around with the same old stuff and wait for a check in the mail.

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Woot!

Obviously I'm the only one in this thread feeling the excitement?
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I thought it was Oceanic's idea of an ocean wave

I had no idea this was TWC logo! I thought it was Oceanic's rather dumb notion of a Pacific ocean wave. It appeared here right after Oceanic won their battle with TWC corporate to retain the Oceanic name so I think most everyone in Hawaii thinks that is Oceanic's rendering of an ocean wave.

It bears zero resemblance to an eye or an ear! It is just stupid looking and if it looks like anything meaningful it is an ocean wave.

I think it is a bad move from Road Runner and its history to some odd looking symbol that makes no sense and a company that wishes to divorce itself from its own history. Why would that be? Ashamed of its history? That would be the only reasonable explanation.

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said by Mele20:

I think it is a bad move from Road Runner and its history to some odd looking symbol that makes no sense and a company that wishes to divorce itself from its own history. Why would that be? Ashamed of its history? That would be the only reasonable explanation.

TWC has to pay licensing fees to use the Roadrunner name and images, which belong to Time Warner. This is a cost cutting move.
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Re: I thought it was Oceanic's idea of an ocean wave

Yeah, well....I didn't think much of the spinoff in the first place and now this.