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Re: AOL? said by Rob:said by aaronwt:said by Rob:AOL, back in the day, wasn't that bad. AOL v. 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0 were great. Then 7.0-9.0 were terrible. Except they wanted you to install their software. Which is the main reason I would not use them. Why? The service was kick ass. The chatrooms, the instant messaging, the "keywords". It's a great program, and great service. The later versions of the program made it terrible, but in the early days AOL was king, and for a very good reason - the service was great. There was NEVER ANYTHING GOOD about their service or their proprietary, crap software. In the early days, there were simply to many 'tards who didn't know and didn't want to know what they were doing. It was all a matter of hand holding. Not to mention, there wasn't 850,000,000 different dial up ISP's, at first.
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Birmingham, AL
2 edits | said by cork1958:In the early days, there were simply to many 'tards who didn't know and didn't want to know what they were doing. It was all a matter of hand holding. Not to mention, there wasn't 850,000,000 different dial up ISP's, at first. There are still too many of those tards using AOL like it's the best thing ever made and people like this know crap about how to use a computer you have to come to their house and teach them how to send an e-mail or how to use MS Office. |
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 aaronwtPremium
join:2004-11-07
Woodbridge, VA
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1 edit | WOW! I just looked on the AOL site. They charge between $10 a month and $26 a month for dial up. And the $26 a month gives you Mcafee and Up to $10,000 identity theft insurance coverage and
Up to $1,000 PC Hardware insurance coverage.
What a rip off!
Then they have backup, dial up access.
No thanks, I use a cellular broadband modem for backup and get 1 to 3mbs download speeds.
I'd rather have no service than even consider using dial up. Not that I have a modem in any of my desktops. I don't even think my laptops have a modem, well I think my oldest one might. |
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OlegBellsouth FastaccessPremium
join:2003-12-08
Birmingham, AL
1 edit | Yea that is a mess with AOL.I can get hardware insurance coverage from SquareTrade for up to 3 years for less than $20 as for Mcafee security suit they offer if i wanted it i could of gotten it for free from my ISP and dentity theft insurance coverage is not needed if you are careful.
Edit: Forgot to say if i needed Dial-Up ISP i could get it for $5.95 unlimited. |
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to Oleg
said by Oleg:said by cork1958:In the early days, there were simply to many 'tards who didn't know and didn't want to know what they were doing. It was all a matter of hand holding. Not to mention, there wasn't 850,000,000 different dial up ISP's, at first. There are still too many of those tards using AOL like it's the best thing ever made and people like this know crap about how to use a computer you have to come to their house and teach them how to send an e-mail or how to use MS Office. the thing is those people should never be allowed to touch a pop3 client to begin with. webmail is good enough for 90% of the users out there imo.
if i didnt use Thunderbird id almost wish residential service ISPs to get rid of pop3 and only use their webmail portals lol.
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OlegBellsouth FastaccessPremium
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Birmingham, AL | I know how to use a mail client,but for me Webmail will do. |
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