AOL has turned to shit

[DainBramaged]

it's simply bullshit, and Huffington Poo is nothing but a trashy magazine like the SUN in England. What dreck. It's all about entertainment trash and stupid animal tricks. My toilet paper is more interesting......

[greyl]

1. News from 1997. nt

[ixion]

2. turned?

their content has always been pretty much crap, in my opinion.

[BackToThe60s]

30. I haven't used my IM in years

[NutmegYankee]

3. So it got better?

Seriously - I left that trash back in the 90s.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. It would have to improve to turn into shit.

[hlthe2b]

5. Yes... Arianna is nothing more than an opportunist...

She may hold a handful of progressive beliefs, but they go by the wayside in the name of $$. She certainly suckered us in, though, through the initial years of HuffPO

[Imajika]

6. AOL = for old folks who don't realize they don't need it to get online...

EVERY person I know who still looks at AOL or pays them anything does so only because they don't understand they don't need it to connect to the internet.

My parents were 2 of those people. Took me forever to finally make them understand they don't need to pay AOL since they already have cable internet.

I've read there are about 3 million such people remaining. Some percentage of that probably don't have access to broadband, but I am sure many/most simply forgot they are paying or don't realize they don't have to.

[A HERETIC I AM]

14. LOL...My boss has an AOL address for his company. Dumbass.

What you wrote made me laugh thinking about an email received at a website I like, said website started by a guy who was a regular on one of AOL's old chat rooms back in the day!

The letter writer was CONVINCED she could get his website shut down for TOS violations!

Yes Virginia, the entire internet is America On Line and you can simply send a "I don't like this person because they said a bad word to me" email and like magic, a website totally separate from AOL will go away!

I had an acquaintance who was the same way. Just could not understand that she didn't need to pay AOL as well as Comcast in order to access the internet.

[Puregonzo1188]

21. I've been trying to explain this to my parents for years.

[grasswire]

22. as has been reported on previous similar threads here...

....many people keep it because they stay in touch with old AOL friends this way. I've had AOL for fifteen years or so. My earliest Internet friends were on AOL, and some of them still are. Yes, I have other ways of accessing the Internets, but I also keep AOL in the way that I keep old letters and cards from friends. Why anyone should be bothered by that is beyond me.

[KittyWampus]

23. Interesting. I just wondered if, for real computer buffs, keeping AOL is like keeping film cameras

Even when your pretty much only needing your digital anymore.

[Imajika]

24. But you can keep in touch with old AOL friends WITHOUT paying AOL...

AIM is free.

You don't need to pay AOL anything unless you don't have broadband and absolutely rely on AOL for your connection to the internet.

Old letters and cards can simply be forwarded to any email address you want, and besides, I'm pretty sure anyone can get a free AIM email address these days. Unless AOL IS your internet connection (and there are far better options for dial up customers), there is literally no reason at all to pay AOL.

[grasswire]

28. I have high-speed broadband

And I was talking about paper letters, silly.

Just face it. Some people are nostalgic.

[uncle ray]

29. i'd be happy to rent you a box to keep those letters and cards in, for only $9.99 a month.

plus taxes and applicable fees, of course.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. Again? I thought they were over that several years ago. Who knew they would deja

vu themselves all over again.

[underpants]

8. 6 months ago I found out that our IT guy used AOL. I had no idea that AOL still existed.

why it still exists is beyond me.

[EOTE]

13. You need a new IT guy. NT

[Control-Z]

9. When was it anything but? -eom

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. I use it because it is convenient

but it's been like that for fifteen years.

[Drale]

11. So whats it like

being back in 1995? Sorry I couldn't help myself.:rofl::hide:

[Drale]

12. So whats it like

being back in 1995? Sorry I couldn't help myself.:rofl::hide:

[BadGimp]

15. Huffington Post is the best US news daily period...

If you disagree no hatin please. Please just give me your choice for a National News Daily alternative...

[Blue-Jay]

Should this be in LBN?

BREAKING: AOL is for idiots.

[gkhouston]

16. AOL was shit in '93, when it dumped thousands of unprepared users on Usenet. n/t

[jberryhill]

20. Amen... But Portal was the trailblazer in that department

!udel!louie!berryh

[NoodleyAppendage]

17. What's AOL? n/t

J

[JuniperLea]

18. They still around?

Shoot... even the WSJ has gone tabloid.

[RainDog]

19. aol has always been shit n/t

[krawhitham]

25. AOL has been shit for 20 years

[Codeine]

26. Am I in a fucking time warp?

:crazy:

[ohheckyeah]

27. I hate AOL.

I had them for about 15 minutes and canned them. I realized that they hadn't canceled my account even though I had a confirmation # I still got charged for an extra month. They are a damn rip off and I don't understand why anyone would use them.