I got my AOL email back!

[CTyankee]

But it was a pain in the ass to get, since it had been hacked! I was on the phone for a long time with tech support and then the call got dropped! I was pretty demoralized. This time it was relatively simple.

I did have to change my password and write it down some place, but I stay logged in (we leave the computer on all the time).

[ret5hd]

1. If you post your password here you will always be able to find it.

[CTyankee]

2. are you being facetious?

I am here a lot...

[ret5hd]

3. Of course.

[Warpy]

4. Wow. All I had to do was change the password

and I got everything back. Fucking Russian hackers.

I haven't made a call to anybody's tech support in almost 10 years, not since I was trying to keep a bargain computer called The Antichrist up and running and speaking nicely to peripheral stuff.

[CTyankee]

5. you prolly don't have AOL...

It was one of the first email companies back in the day. We've had our accounts since then. And I am always teased about how outdated I am. It's as if it is pretty outdated and passe I am. My kids made fun of me...

[Warpy]

7. Yeah, I do, actually

I have all but 3 addresses on block, so I don't even use it as a junk account any more. It mostly gives me access to a huge mailing list over there for all sorts of political stuff.

[PufPuf23]

8. My main email account is still an aol account.

I have had the specific email address since January 1995 when I signed on to aol.

I had been using my work ISP at home but there was a new policy that made using the work ISP for home.

Aol was one of few ISPs available then.

[Glamrock]

9. What's a AOL?

Just playing...

[CTyankee]

10. Oh, you bring back the old days...

so nice to have your own kids make fun of you...but it's also a strange thing to do...

[Glamrock]

11. To be honest

I didn't realize they were still around. But, hell changing your email is a giant pain in the ass. Sorry you had to go through the hassle to maintain it.

[CTyankee]

12. II don't know why this was such a pain to get straight. I complained to the AOL person in the

call center. I was seriously considering a gmail account but the thought of going thru another process was too awful to contemplate...

[Fla Dem]

14. I've tried gmail, Comcast,yahoo and others, but I keep coming back to aol.

I just find it's the easiest to use.

[irisblue]

6. storing passwords

I have a 5 by 7 card with most of my passwords written down. I have 2 email accounts with excite.com. ancient time in the internet age.
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[alphafemale]

13. AOL is still around. Man Fuck them with a hoe.

I had to close a bank account to get those assholes to stop charging me for about two years after I dropped their sorry provider service.

At the time you had to know the exact amount that would be charged to block it so they would change the charge.

This was at least 16 years ago.

And there forums and news groups were all heavily biased right-wing

I can't believe those creeps are still in business.

[BlueSpot]

15. But remember all the sculptures people made with the free discs?

[csziggy]

17. I sold an AOL CD on Ebay for over $80!

It had a movie theme - I don't even remember which movie it was for - and apparently was very rare. The guy that bought it wrote a book about collecting AOL CDs and he had never seen one, just read about them until he saw my Ebay auction.

The fun part was that I only put up for sale as a joke - I had a bunch of AOL CDs and was going to throw them away and someone said I could make some money with them. A few others sold for maybe $5 each, some didn't sell but overall I made over $100 out of crap I got free.

Just took a look - they are still selling on Ebay, but not for as much. I think the one I got all the money for was a Harry Potter AOL CD. There is on for sale now for only $3.95 - I guess I just hit the market at the right time.

[crazycatlady]

18. I remember those AOL CDs

(I was a sophomore in HS when we got AOL)

Ours had a game called 'water balloons' on it where you were on the top of a building and you hit people with water balloons. I procrastinated many a paper with that game.