AOL in the mail

GREAHSIAM · Post by **GREAHSIAM** » 2004-04-12 05:43pm

I get at least two AOL disks per month in the mail. Besides making great coasters, is AOL even worth taking a look at??. Is there any real reason to switch to AOL?.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-04-12 05:45pm

If you've already got a good broadband ISP, don't even bother with AOL.

Tribun · Post by **Tribun** » 2004-04-12 05:45pm

Throw them away.

AOL isn't worth a cent. They really suck, and people, who use AOL to browse and get e-mails, are not taken serious in many net-communities...

The Aliens · Post by **The Aliens** » 2004-04-12 05:50pm

If your internet currently works, that's got AOL beat.

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2004-04-12 05:55pm

I save the disks for the latest version of IE.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2004-04-13 12:52am

Those are those things that give you 1000 free hours, but you have to use them all in a month, which doesn't make sense, as there aren't even that many hours in a month, right? Not even I know what I do with them, but it isn't using the free hours.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-04-13 04:11am

No, I think it's 1000 hours in 45 days.

In any case, their dialup service was never reliable when I used it... they liked to disconnect me a lot.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2004-04-13 02:39pm

Tribun wrote:Throw them away.

AOL isn't worth a cent. They really suck, and people, who use AOL to browse and get e-mails, are not taken serious in many net-communities...

.................. You might want to ReThink those words, Tribun. Nitram and I both started with AoHell and we met in an RPG that used to run in their Gaming Forums.

Teradoc · Post by **Teradoc** » 2004-04-13 03:52pm

Here's what you can do with your AOHell cds

This is the guy with the most I believe...

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-04-13 03:58pm

AOL CDs are fucking tough as nails. You should send them to the US government R&D department for further study as possible implimentations as body armor.

GREAHSIAM · Post by **GREAHSIAM** » 2004-04-13 06:30pm

Why didn't we think of this before???. We should've spammed Saddam with a mountain of AOL disks. He'd have capitulated within a month.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2004-04-13 06:49pm

LadyTevar wrote:
Tribun wrote:Throw them away.
AOL isn't worth a cent. They really suck, and people, who use AOL to browse and get e-mails, are not taken serious in many net-communities...
.................. You might want to ReThink those words, Tribun. Nitram and I both started with AoHell and we met in an RPG that used to run in their Gaming Forums.

Thank you, m'Lady.
As someone who STILL uses AOL I'd like to say...
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that all those people telling you to get another provider are propably right.
While I cannot complain where connectivity is concerned, as I very rarely experienced connection breaks or unable-to-connect problems, the performance of my dial-up-connection isn't a fraction of what it used to be, and somehow I doubt the problem is with my rig.
If you're thinking dial-up. go elsewhere-AOL seems to be trying to actively discourage dial-up users (at least here in the FRG).
If you're thinking DSL-go elsewhere.Compared to AOL, t-online has a picture-perfect record (and considering we're talking t-online, that's saying something...)
I can't really speak for other countries, of course.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2004-04-13 06:52pm

We're still on AOL at the home computer, it's taken me 4 years but my parents are finally starting to agree with me that AOL is just tosh, I got so sick of it trying to control what I was doing, after getting back from uni and campus internet, I'm not even putting my drinks on an AOL cd...

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2004-04-13 06:57pm

The_Lumberjack wrote:, after getting back from uni and campus internet, I'm not even putting my drinks on an AOL cd...

Pure superstition. Putting drinks on AOL CDs is perfectly harmless.
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Well, Okay, maybe not perfectly harmless, but what's sobad about pretending to be a giant bat?

Interesting sidenote:Dd you know that AOL users are always the LAST to get the new AOL version on CD?

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2004-04-14 02:13am

Uraniun235 wrote:No, I think it's 1000 hours in 45 days.

In any case, their dialup service was never reliable when I used it... they liked to disconnect me a lot.

Still, there are 1080 hours in 45 days, and to run out of hours, you would have to use the CD for 22.2 hours a day.

AnimeJet · Post by **AnimeJet** » 2004-04-14 03:55am

My friend used to have AOL, lets just say it was very hard to keep an IM converstation going on with her. =T

Here's a cool site though :
No more AOL CDs!

Our Objective:

To collect 1,000,000 unwanted AOL CDs from people like you. We'll then transport the 1,000,000 CDs in an armada of trucks or something and give them back to their rightful owners, AOL. We'll ask them to stop sending these unrequested, unwanted, and destined for landfill CDs.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2004-04-15 01:24am

LadyTevar wrote:
Tribun wrote:Throw them away.

AOL isn't worth a cent. They really suck, and people, who use AOL to browse and get e-mails, are not taken serious in many net-communities...
.................. You might want to ReThink those words, Tribun. Nitram and I both started with AoHell and we met in an RPG that used to run in their Gaming Forums.

RDI?

Oh, and I once figured the hours for all their offers were the highest round number under the number of hours that exist during the number. The 1000 hours are for 45 days (1080 hours), while IIRC it used to be 700 hours in 30 days (720 hours).

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-04-15 01:37am

Microwave them. They make pretty designs.

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-04-15 01:40am

Batman wrote:Interesting sidenote:Dd you know that AOL users are always the LAST to get the new AOL version on CD?

Of course; they offer the newest version when you sign on.

Oh, and they make good frisbees.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-04-16 02:51pm

verilon wrote:Microwave them. They make pretty designs.

Don't do this alot because you'll ruin your microwave. Foil + microwaves = not good

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2004-04-16 03:05pm

Vertigo1 wrote:
verilon wrote:Microwave them. They make pretty designs.
Don't do this alot because you'll ruin your microwave. Foil + microwaves = not good

That, and if you do it for more than a few seconds, it smells like shit due to the melting plastic.