  pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Some people still rent landline phones from the phone company too. | |
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join:2004-06-09
South Elgin, IL
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| Re: Uh said by pnh102:Fools; money.
Some people still rent landline phones from the phone company too.
As well as pay for cable TV premium channels.
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join:2004-11-07
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| Re: Uh said by wings10:said by pnh102:Fools; money.
Some people still rent landline phones from the phone company too.
As well as pay for cable TV premium channels. How do you legally get them for free? | |
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| Dont laugh my parents still use the stupid aol client and pay ! I have tried to talk them into canceling but nope. Apparently its the only way they know how to use the internet.
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| Re: Uh have easy to follow steps i can send them  Im half way across the world and dont feel like racking up a bill calling aol. Although if its toll free it would be nice to run their bill up.
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Mullica Hill, NJ | Re: Uh I'd love it if the people refused and stated that the lease was with AT&T... since the current AT&T is not actually AT&T the lease might legally be voided since SBC is just AT&T in name.
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| said by Mr Matt:The worst case...
Unfortunately there are many customers paying rental fees for telephones they have long ago discarded because they did not realize that they were rented. AT&T will gladly demand that the customer pay the purchase price for a new phone even if the rental phone is 20 years old.
Rotory phones are really no longer relevant in today's society of digital voice phone service. Just because analog phone emulation still exists means nothing. Caregivers acutally have to wake up and confront companies that leech off of old (and/or disabled) people just because they can. There should be a confront your finances day to stop companies from profiting from failure to be prudent about unnecessary services/rental fees or unused products still being billed AND paid for by unsuspecting customers.
I would have thought since 2007-2009 when the economy "TANKED" that many caregivers with a fiduciary duty to protect those in their charge would have thrown these services overboard and stopped these leeching companies by now (no matter how hard it is to convince the people your caring for)! If not, there is more than a few screws loose with these negligent caregivers. | |
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| Re: Uh I was reviewing a phone bill yesterday. It had this wonderful unlimited long distance you talk about. $9/month + taxes, fees, etc for a grand total of $14 and change.
There were 9 minutes of billable long distance on that bill. Paying an outrageous $0.25/min + taxes and fees would have been half the cost!
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kudos:5 | Re: Uh $9 unlimited LD + $5 taxes fees, etc = $14
$0.25 * 9 + $5 taxes, fees, etc = $7.25
You should be able to find an LD service for $0.10-0.15/minute + $2-3 in fees.
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|  Dude111An Awesome DudePremium
join:2003-08-04
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Some people still rent landline phones from the phone company too.
And they are the smart ones!!
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| Free money... I am *still* amazed with the folks I encounter that are :
-uninformed they can have AOL free
-fear losing their email address
-think they will have poorer service from other "free" email (MSN, Yahoo, Gmail,...)
-had no idea they don't have to pay
I think I've convinced 30 users to check their statements and dump AOL for free service. I am not surprised the numbers out there are higher.
Oh, and it would be nice to see the age group of these AOL users (I bet 55 and up). Old$kool...
(I know one person STILL using Netscape! but then their DIAL UP ISP still supports it!)
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| Re: Free money... said by elios:hey now Netscape was great back in the day
Agree, actually AOL was very important in the internet getting to the masses but no one on here ever admitts it. | |
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join:2008-01-24
Toronto, ON
kudos:1 | Re: Free money... said by Corehhi:Agree, actually AOL was very important in the internet getting to the masses but no one on here ever admitts it. I suppose if you take it for granted that leading every knuckle dragger to the internet was a good thing LOL. | |
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| Re: Free money... said by pnjunction:said by Corehhi:Agree, actually AOL was very important in the internet getting to the masses but no one on here ever admits it. I suppose if you take it for granted that leading every knuckle dragger to the internet was a good thing LOL. Knuckle dragger's have been subsidizing my activities for a long time so we can leave them alone. More the merrier. | |
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join:2001-11-14
Katy, TX
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| said by Corehhi:said by elios:hey now Netscape was great back in the day
Agree, actually AOL was very important in the internet getting to the masses but no one on here ever admitts it. I think just about everyone had AOL in the 90s to early 2000s. AOL was first with unlimited in 1995 and their strong hold was set. I was able to get free AOL for almost 2 years as you could keep getting another month free.
Their AOL intranet and IM messenger was fantastic back in the day. The chat rooms were cool too.
They had a free hosting of user programs to download from which was just used for piracy. It was great.
Than after 2000 everyone started getting broadband and dropped AOL as no one would pay extra, so AOL just erroded.
They tried to save it in 2006 by letting people use the email and portal for free, but it was too late by then.
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In fact, I think that list of names would be AOLs most valued asset. Imagine if the folks from the Nigerian Royal Family got their hands on it..... | |
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join:2001-02-22
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And, by the way, AOL has not exited the ISP business--most of their plans, though, describe their dial-up as "backup access" (for those, supposedly, who also have broadband).
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kudos:7 | the AOL old days i miss the old days, the bots in chat rooms sending warez to your AOL email. | |
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| Re: the AOL old days said by IllIlIlllIll:i miss the old days, the bots in chat rooms sending warez to your AOL email.
Oh The good ole days !! AOL HELL Chat BOT's | |
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join:2003-07-06
Lindenhurst, NY
kudos:7 | Re: the AOL old days said by MTBikerChris:said by IllIlIlllIll:i miss the old days, the bots in chat rooms sending warez to your AOL email.
Oh The good ole days !! AOL HELL Chat BOT's i had my own operating at one time, lots of fun.
its was as simple as forwarding emails that already have the attachments and/or uploading your own emails with attachments, then forwarding them, let their server do the work lol
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| said by IllIlIlllIll:i miss the old days, the bots in chat rooms sending warez to your AOL email.
Actually not all bots. For a while a friend and I use to pretend to be teenage girls and let the fun begin. The perverts would cum after us and we would say the wildest thing we could. LOL. Started off sending these guys a picture when opened ended up being a fat hairy man mooning them, they wanted ass we gave it to them. LOL. It got meaner after that. Oh the heydays of AOL chat. I use to use Net zero if you remember that?? Fastest downloads at night and free. | |
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join:2003-07-06
Lindenhurst, NY
kudos:7 | Re: the AOL old days said by Corehhi:said by IllIlIlllIll:i miss the old days, the bots in chat rooms sending warez to your AOL email.
Actually not all bots. For a while a friend and I use to pretend to be teenage girls and let the fun begin. The perverts would cum after us and we would say the wildest thing we could. LOL. Started off sending these guys a picture when opened ended up being a fat hairy man mooning them, they wanted ass we gave it to them. LOL. It got meaner after that. Oh the heydays of AOL chat. I use to use Net zero if you remember that?? Fastest downloads at night and free. lol ! i remember that !
i did the same thing haha except i strung them on long enough to get them to call a phone number of my choosing LOL.
the netzero was so easy to get past the adware and use DUN instead of their crappy software.
lots of AOL agents were too easy to "socialize" with and get needed information in order to tos accounts or become "God", haha
i still have tons of their proprietary applications and software that the staff used, most of it downloaded from aol-files.com (now »www.mattmazur.com/archive/aol-files.html)
ahhh, the old days of AOL, exploited free dialup and win98, i cherish it  , took me 14 hours to download VB4 complete LOL
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| | r81984Fair and BalancedPremium
join:2001-11-14
Katy, TX Reviews:
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·row44
| said by Corehhi:said by IllIlIlllIll:i miss the old days, the bots in chat rooms sending warez to your AOL email.
Actually not all bots. For a while a friend and I use to pretend to be teenage girls and let the fun begin. The perverts would cum after us and we would say the wildest thing we could. LOL. Started off sending these guys a picture when opened ended up being a fat hairy man mooning them, they wanted ass we gave it to them. LOL. It got meaner after that. Oh the heydays of AOL chat. I use to use Net zero if you remember that?? Fastest downloads at night and free. LOL. You were teenage loosers pretending to be little girls talking to teenage loosers pretending to be 40 year old men with lots of money and a sports car. LOL X2
Then you sent each other pictures of other people. LOL X3
AOL was great back in the day.
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| Re: the AOL old days said by r81984:LOL. You were teenage loosers pretending to be little girls talking to teenage loosers pretending to be 40 year old men with lots of money and a sports car. LOL X2 Then you sent each other pictures of other people. LOL X3 AOL was great back in the day. I wasn't a teenager. LOL> Who ever was on the other end I don't know....butt it was fun. | |
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join:2003-07-06
Lindenhurst, NY
kudos:7 | Re: the AOL old days said by MTBikerChris:Oh I remember a Program that use to find all the AOL chat guides and BOOT Them all offline , It would search for then and put them in one chat box to BOOT ,I Think the program was AOL P()$$Y
all it was and did, was special characters that were entered at a rate of high speed - it would lag the client (buffer overflow) and eventually cause it to crash.
used to be able to put certain special characters in the AOL profile, when someone viewed it, the client would crash
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| | wow My main email is an aol email address. I have not gotten away from it because they have IMAP access and it rocks when paired with my iphone.
The minute they made it free i had my parents get off the billing. We had cable internet at the time (cablevision and at the time was the fastest in the country).
So dont bash people who still use the email service even know it compaires with gmail (my aol email address has gone down less times then my gmail address) .
I would like to know how many of these people cant get better internet service. There are places in the US that can only have dial up. | |
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join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA Reviews:
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| If it works, don't fix it. While tech weenies will scoff at AOL, they did one thing that, to date, that no other company in America achieved - the most idiot-proof software ever written.
The AOL install software, along with them dialer, detects and configures connections automagically, and manages to keep them working for years at a time - a godsend when you have a dozen relatives in their 8th decade on planet earth.
Yes, dialup is what it is - but AOL integrates dial-up failover from broadband better than anyone, so those nonsensical intermittent outages don't cause anxiety or panic.
If 3.5 million people are blissfully ignorant, happily paying AOL for their product, I don't see what the fuss is all about. | |
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| Mele20Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
kudos:4 | Re: If it works, don't fix it. said by elray:While tech weenies will scoff at AOL, they did one thing that, to date, that no other company in America achieved - the most idiot-proof software ever written.
The AOL install software, along with them dialer, detects and configures connections automagically, and manages to keep them working for years at a time - a godsend when you have a dozen relatives in their 8th decade on planet earth.
You must not have been around in 2000. I was a beta tester for AOL for a couple of years back then. The version that we were testing for release in September 2000 was incredibly buggy. About a week before scheduled release (which was always right about the beginning of the new school year), us beta testers were given the version that was intended to go Gold. It was a formality for us to test it as why, gee, all serious bugs were gone by then and this was the last scheduled build. Yeah, really, no bugs, uh huh. What happened is history. That build caused such havoc that even though AOL gave us a secret website to go to and get help most of us still had to reformat our computers as that was the only way to fully fix what that build did to our systems.
We told AOL that they could not release that build as Gold as it would cripple the computers of many of the naive, ignorant of computers clientele that AOL had for customers. Beta techs backed us up in our analysis of the situation and said release of the new version would have to be delayed. AOL said that was impossible because school was about to start and release had to be before, or coincide with, school starting. We were all reminded of the 3 year NDA we had signed when accepted as beta testers and we already knew from an earlier incident how vicious AOL could be to anyone breaking NDA for any reason no matter how well intentioned a reason.
So, while we reformatted our computers and some called their OEMs to help them and the OEMs were furious with AOL for not delaying release, AOL released the VERY VERSION THAT WRECKED HAVOC on beta testers computers as Gold and we, being under NDA, could do nothing to warn those happily downloading this probably lethal piece of software. We watched the AOL forums fill quickly with cries for help and we were not even allowed to help the users. Out of this mess a nice class action lawsuit arose and it cost AOL quite a bit.
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join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA Reviews:
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·RoadRunner Cable
| Re: If it works, don't fix it. said by Mele20:said by elray:While tech weenies will scoff at AOL, they did one thing that, to date, that no other company in America achieved - the most idiot-proof software ever written.
The AOL install software, along with them dialer, detects and configures connections automagically, and manages to keep them working for years at a time - a godsend when you have a dozen relatives in their 8th decade on planet earth.
You must not have been around in 2000. I was a beta tester for AOL for a couple of years back then. The version that we were testing for release in September 2000 was incredibly buggy. About a week before scheduled release (which was always right about the beginning of the new school year), us beta testers were given the version that was intended to go Gold. ... We told AOL that they could not release that build as Gold as it would cripple the computers of many of the naive, ignorant of computers clientele that AOL had for customers. I do vaguely recall there were a couple of release issues at the time of the Millennium Edition plague, but they were avoidable. I don't doubt your testimony - anyone who has dealt with large software projects and PHB management has had their Roger Boisjoly moments.
My point is that despite the flaws you were heroically trying to contain, the AOL package was intended to address nearly every "what if" contingency and resolve it quietly for the subscriber. Most programmers I've known in this life aren't so comprehensive; quick to to dismiss potential quirks with "no one will ever do that" or "if they do, they deserve ...". | |
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join:2009-04-29
Cortland, NY | Re: I hate to admit this... if you really do as many patches as you say you might want to consider WSUS or proxy caching or qchained updated. | |
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| |  TransmasterDon't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
1 edit | And in a future era..... 2000 years from now archealogists will be excavating in a land that once called "us", or U.S. they are not sure which. In their excavations of what was once must have been trash heaps they are finding 10's of thousands of a plastic disc's who's propose is unknown, on some of them you can just see the letters AOL. Dr. Shamoonda speculates these plastic disc's with a single hole in the center where some sort of votive offering to some unknown God, perhaps his name was Aol. We don't know much about this era thanks to what has become known as the Great Computer Crash of 2021 when a massive virus infested all of the worlds server farms, and how all of the Cloud storage was erased forever. Now only fragments are left, some mysterious thing called Napster, and something called the RIAA which we think was some kind of criminal organization. There is also mysterious references to DSL Reports we have no idea what this is although the name seems to indicate some type of soothsayer. 
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" You got mail ", when at least Outlook Express was there already to begin with? | |
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| | | Re: Why AOL in the 1st place???????? said by Billy Bob :Since AOL is a program that works inside windows operating system, and almost all computers came with free programs, or next to free, or at least minimal expense = Why would people even think of AOL in the 1st place?
" You got mail ", when at least Outlook Express was there already to begin with?
because outlook express didnt get you on the internet. my first ISP was aol, im not ashamed to admit that. we all started some where.
aside, i still have my "7" aol email accounts, i did at least cancel billing the day they went free | |
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| | | | Re: Why AOL in the 1st place???????? Yes, your right.
But, KMart had their free "Blue Light" disc out then, and that was a free access to the internet. | |
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join:2003-03-23
New Orleans, LA
kudos:2 | Loooong time ago I remember getting on a chat session with an AOL tech to request a new set of install floppies.
Hanging out at friend's houses nuking chat sessions and all others kinds of malicious stuff.
Brings back memories. Good days. | |
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join:2002-06-05
Cowtown
kudos:1 | I'm just glad... ... That I don't have to hear "AOL Keyword:" at the end of every TV Commercial anymore... | |
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join:2009-06-22
Glen Cove, NY
kudos:1 | Re: I'm just glad... Me too!
Although today that's replaced by "Friend us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter!"
LOL! | |
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join:2009-11-17
Brooklyn, NY | Re: Back in the day, we used WebTV Another former WebTV user here. I bought one in late '96 when they first came out and used it more often than my old PC at the time. Couch surfing was a lot of fun. It was great in the early days because the web really didn't have much by way of multimedia content so you didn't miss much. WebTV couldn't keep up with newer tech so it died, of course, but it was fun while it lasted. | |
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