Will AOL's Implosion Ever End? > It wouldn't be accurate to say they ignored broadband...

It wouldn't be accurate to say they ignored broadband...

I had TWC/Roadrunner back then and I was afraid of exactly the same thing. At the time I was doing computer work for a friend and had worked on a few client's computers with AOL installed. On a couple of occasions we ended up having to format and re-install Windows to get rid of AOL. I absolutely wanted no part of any ISP that forced me to install software just to get online. At that time I would have had no choice since the phone lines barely supported 28.8 dialup and DSL was not even available where I lived.

Thankfully I now have Verizon FIOS which gives me some of the fastest residential internet available in the country and I don't have to have any cumbersome software installed on my computers.

I always wondered how long AOL could keep up mailing all those "free" CD's in fancy metal boxes and sticking them in just about every magazine I bought. No wonder they had to charge the prices they did for their dial up service.