Remembering AOL - Still Scared

[skyl3r]

I just replied to a post about using p2p programs with 56k. It made me remember the days of AOL ... Compuserve (when i was banned from AOL) Back in the prog days (AOL chat spammers .. mail bombers etc) I remember how gay the chats were because of all the hosts. They would ban u untill u called them and so on ... The times when Cable/DSL wasnt avail in my area. The only good thing I got really from AOL was when My mother switched bank's and cut the card # AOL had off ... and they just sent me emails and crap about me needing to update my account info lol. This went on for like 1 1/2yrs. AOL blows .... There was alot of cussing while using it. Thank god I have moved on.

Feel free to post ur experiences with AOL (If u were stuck in the 56k era as I was)

[Ne007]

AOL sucks. Period.

wellll.......I remember the buzzing and bleeeaaaam blleleaammmmamarrrrrrrrrrckckckkckckkkcsszzzzzz you had to go thru to get online....I remember it freezing up and getting kicked off. I remember the snail slow download speeds.....and napster. I remember it being censored as hell.....politically correct when I'm not.

[Mels_Smileys45]

Was using AOL at my parents home the other day. Its so easy to forget how bad it is till you are forced to use it. Makes my blood pressure rise!

[SmyD]

WTF are you guys talking about? AOL was the best way to get warez up until about a month ago when they started deleting mails after two days. I love aol and I prefered to use it to download over everything expect topsites/ftp. I hope AOL will come back one day. It was fast as newsgroups and no download limit from isp. GG AOL

[Monty Burnz]

WTF are you guys talking about? AOL was the best way to get warez up until about a month ago when they started deleting mails after two days. I love aol and I prefered to use it to download over everything expect topsites/ftp. I hope AOL will come back one day. It was fast as newsgroups and no download limit from isp. GG AOL


America On-Line? or a different AOL.

[serrebi101]

it's aol, from what I remember, you could get the stuff from an aol chat similar to irc and it would send a sertain sized email with attached files.

[black_magiic]

I know what he's talking about. it was some IRC thing or similar. It was supposedly really good but it only worked with AOL

[homie_da_clownx]

yea AOl did used to be a tight serve, compared to some things people call "the best". I guess it's all about who and what you know. FTP's are preferable to me.

[DampCold]

I wasnt' and AOL user, but I remember the days when it took weeks to get an application... if the link was still valid by the time you got to the 50th rar file. I never had problems with censoring and I have been to some chatrooms where there probably should have been some oversight.

I still relive the nightmares when I go home to visit my parents who are still in a third-world internet area (read: can't get broadband).

[DwarfBaby]

Late 1999. After waiting on hold for 20 minutes.

ME: Hello,
AOL: Hello,
ME: Yes, I want to cancel my service.
AOL: Is there anything we can do to change your mind.
ME: No.
AOL: What is the reason your cancelling.
ME: Too slow, Pacific Bell(now Verizon) is offering DSL in my area.
AOL: We have a, bring your own service package.
ME: No.
AOL: What if we give you three months free
ME: Why I have DSL.
AOL: Well sir, you get AOL's trusted content and services for just 9.95 a month.
ME: NO THANKS
AOL: Are you sure
ME: absolutly
AOL: Why
ME: Just cancel my service, OK
AOL: We have offers for free concerts, movies, trips...
ME: Just cancel my service.
AOL: We have ...
ME: Just cancel my service
AOL: Well sir, our records indicate that your next payment is due within five days. You must cancel you service within ten days of your next billing otherwise you well be charged for next month.
ME: What, that doesn't make any sense?
AOL: What do you mean?
ME: Fine, just make sure it's cancelled.
AOL: Well sir, I can't cancel your service for an upcomming pay period until that pay period.
ME: What!
AOL: Company policy.
ME: Just cancel my service!
AOL: Sir, please calm down.
ME: What is your name
AOL: As I told you prevouisly, my name is Mark.
ME: What's your last name Mark.
AOL: My employee identification number is ######.
ME: Well mister Mark employee identification number ######, just cancel my fucking service.
AOL: I'm sorry sir, You must call back during the next pay period.
ME: (Hang up the phone.)

This is not an exaggeration. They kept charging me for a service I wasn't using and Bank of America couldn’t block every transaction resulting from AOL. Therefore, I had them block every charge totaling $21.95. I was then contacted several months later by an AOL collector; I was told that I owed $65 in services. I got a lawyer which cost me $105, to write a formal, certified letter to those bastards, to stop their harassment.

It was the best $105 I have ever spent. I didn't have to pay their $65 and I still have 800+ credit rating.

They sent me a letter of appology, and insured me the party responsable was repremended. I replied to their letter and told them no one I ever know well ever use their service.

[skyl3r]

AOL
Pros
- Cool chats ... meet girls in city chats (ex - Northcarolina, greensboro) Go to lesbian chatrooms and try to trade pics with ppl without getting "TOS" by gay aol hosts.
- Email .... easy, fast emails.

Cons
- Everything except listed above.

[mfgbypooter]

Does anyone really still use AOHell?

[skyl3r]

God i hope not. i think it costs like 25.00 now .... w0w it also takes over ur computer. huge file restarts like 3times durring installation.

[Betamax]

AOL stole like 20 squid from me. I called to cancel and they offered me an extra month free, so I said 'yes', then they didnit cancel the account and started charging me again after the free month was up. I called my credit card company and they siad that this was a common problem with AOL in the UK.

[skyl3r]

the bank account aol had was shutdown .... and they didnt clip my account for like 1 1/2yrs. it isnt as bad at all if u have a high speed connection to use with it and AOL is free .... good chats ... thats it.

[old skewl xtra]

i used aol until 3.0 and after came out.....i think 2 and 2.5 were the best. i haven't even been on aol for 10 years and wouldn't go back....it's slooooooooooooowwwwwwwwww. i use to love proggin...was fun back in the day

[rainbowdemon]

When I finally moved to an area where DSL was available, I used AOL for a week or so. As long as it took for the DSL to go online. When I tried to cancel, I said the reason was that I had DSL. The woman started talking about AOL for broadband, or some shit like that. After arguing about it for a while, I finally said, rather loudly,

"DSL is broadband, you stupid fucking c*nt". Those exact words. The service was cancelled, and I never heard from them again!!

[Auggie2k]

Thats the spirit rainbow, show em whos boss.

[-0-BACKLASH-0-]

I still relive the nightmares when I go home to visit my parents who are still in a third-world internet area (read: can't get broadband).

It's a terrible experience going back to dialup. I don't even want to use the computer when all they have is dialup. That's how slow it is.

It's sad that there are places that can't get broadband...like homes in the mountains and stuff. *sigh*

[Auggie2k]

It's a terrible experience going back to dialup. I don't even want to use the computer when all they have is dialup. That's how slow it is.

It's sad that there are places that can't get broadband...like homes in the mountains and stuff. *sigh*
Roll on the internet through power lines. Come on Google, pull the finger out.

[rainbowdemon]

It's sad that there are places that can't get broadband...like homes in the mountains and stuff. *sigh*

Exactly!! I lived in hte mountains of West Virginia for a few years. Dial-up was all that was available. It ran about 24k. Once in a while 26.5. Sucked big time!!

[meyou123]

Anybody remember the old PACKARD BELL computers? I bet it was really fun if you hooked up one of those with AOL! LOL!

The Packard Bells when they were still based in America were horrible I couldn't imagine having a computer that sucked and then having to go through all the troubles of hooking up AOL on it!

[Jared Moya]

WTF are you guys talking about? AOL was the best way to get warez up until about a month ago when they started deleting mails after two days. I love aol and I prefered to use it to download over everything expect topsites/ftp. I hope AOL will come back one day. It was fast as newsgroups and no download limit from isp. GG AOL
Yah, are we talking about the same thing? Warez shamrez.....try getting a 700MB screener or 3.7GB DVDRip with a 56K connection speed.....


.....makes me nauscious just thinking about it.:icon_puke

was dope for its time but, just like steam engines things advance and going back is painful.

[Boomer The Dog]

20 years from now folks will probably be nostalgic for dial-up internet, Packard Bell 486s, AOL and Compuserve. 'That 1990s Show' will have screeching modems on it.

When electric lights came in most places, folks put away their candles and oil lamps. Most moved on to the era of safer electric light, but some longed for the quaint times of matches and candles, thinking that 'progress' wasn't everything.

I know that right now I'm fighting to get higher speed net, and faster computers, and more music and movies on computer instead of using the radio or DVDs.

[broadbit]

yes I have to agree that the /server rooms were awesome, I didn't like to use the computer much because of the .56k modems. I wonder why the speed was limited anyway.

[shawners]

I met a AOL user a few months ago. I am trying to do a transfer for my job, and to transfer i need him to come to Dallas and i to go to Tennessee. We signed a legal and binding contract that we can only cancel if we both agree to cancel. So we put our house up for sale, contact movers, let family and friends know we be moving in Jan. So he signed the papers to transfer before visiting. And when he did visit he later emailed me and said he doesnt fit in here. So after all the packing and running around we did to get ready. He backs out. HE IS THE LAMEST PIECE OF SHIT THeir is. I should of never agree to transfer seeing his AOL email account. I thought it was just a hoax people pull saying how dumb aol users are. But this guy is a piece of shit. Were expecting our second child in October, and a pregnant woman keeping a house clean with a 2 year old around and as well as doing extra stuff isnt good, and for this piece of shit to back out. I blew my fuse and am trying to hold him to what he signed.

[Mels_Smileys45]

I met a AOL user a few months ago. I am trying to do a transfer for my job, and to transfer i need him to come to Dallas and i to go to Tennessee. We signed a legal and binding contract that we can only cancel if we both agree to cancel. So we put our house up for sale, contact movers, let family and friends know we be moving in Jan. So he signed the papers to transfer before visiting. And when he did visit he later emailed me and said he doesnt fit in here. So after all the packing and running around we did to get ready. He backs out. HE IS THE LAMEST PIECE OF SHIT THeir is. I should of never agree to transfer seeing his AOL email account. I thought it was just a hoax people pull saying how dumb aol users are. But this guy is a piece of shit. Were expecting our second child in October, and a pregnant woman keeping a house clean with a 2 year old around and as well as doing extra stuff isnt good, and for this piece of shit to back out. I blew my fuse and am trying to hold him to what he signed.


That sucks man. You still coming to Tennessee? What part would you be moving to?

[shawners]

Im not sure. Its legal and binding. Im going to send it off to human resources and see what happens. Alot of times the postmaster are dumb in a lot of areas involving it so they may not know all the details and rules but hopefully i can get it where its set in stone. It be in La Vergne TN. I guess its around 20 miles south east of Nashville. I believe the guy is gay and leaving that area because Dallas has a big gay community. A big church that supports it to.

[Mels_Smileys45]

Im not sure. Its legal and binding. Im going to send it off to human resources and see what happens. Alot of times the postmaster are dumb in a lot of areas involving it so they may not know all the details and rules but hopefully i can get it where its set in stone. It be in La Vergne TN. I guess its around 20 miles south east of Nashville. I believe the guy is gay and leaving that area because Dallas has a big gay community. A big church that supports it to.


Thats a beautiful part of Tenn. Amazing caves and rock formations. Somewhere around that way you can take a boat ride on an underground lake. I went to Ruby Falls once and it was amazing. They take you about a mile underground and lead you to a huge underground waterfall. And there is always Dollywood if you like to see tig ol bitties.

[BlaqueCherriBerri]

Giggles.. Cuz i remember the days of being in the mac pc room waiting for the software gods to smile upon you lol

how about macfliez zeilfcam

oooo i use to love mac....
it was fun and very lame...

room raids and mail bombs...

lol... how sad we all were...

[wapazoid]

*sigh*

AOL. Remember the days when subscribers were charged by the hour? My first bill came to nearly $600.

[RawringKevin]

Oh god i remember those days. Money Grubbers. Everytime you tried to cancle they would try to make an excuse unti you yelled STAY THE FUCK AWAY and they would get scared.

[Hottwire]

lol good old AOL :)

[Tic3]

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