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Walt...AOL users didn't seem to be that well liked on TT at the time either :)

Posted by Stephen (aka SCeire) Apr 23 '09, 19:50

*shrug* aol users as a whole were just as bad as users of any other service were. aol was just bigger.

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I can't recall if Angelfire or Geocities was my first personal webpage... - Mel Profit Apr 23, 20:06
If I recall the Internet sentiment at the time, it was that AOL was where the masses went. - ty97 Apr 23, 19:51 14
- Yes, there did seem to be a certain sense of elitism if you weren't an AOL user. -- nm - Stephen Apr 23, 20:27 1
  - Absolutely. A friend of mine and I programmed several levels of Doom (the original) using the floorplans of AOL headquarters. - ReluctantCynic Apr 23, 20:30
- there was a lot of wailing that the stupid people were ruining the Internet. sort of like Twitter now. -- nm - loosilu Apr 23, 19:52 11
  - Have you seen Facebook? The stupid people did ruin the Internet. - ty97 Apr 23, 19:53 10
    - the internet is what you make of it, it is great than AOL, or twitter, or Facebook. Explore it, it is an adventure :) -- nm - Stacy Apr 23, 20:22 1
      - *greater than* -- nm - Stacy Apr 23, 20:23
    - they ruined it 15 years ago. -- nm - loosilu Apr 23, 19:54 7
      - Much like "the neighborhood" and "society", it merely lingers in a constant state of near-ruination. ;-) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 23, 19:54 6
        
        /b/ was never good. -- nm - Qale Apr 23, 19:56 5
        
        ::checks punctuation carefully:: -- nm - b! Apr 23, 20:59
        
        Kids today! -- nm - loosilu Apr 23, 19:57
        
        ... so by definition it could never be ruined? that's an interesting paradox. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 23, 19:56 2
        
        if it was never good, wouldn't making it good ruin it? -- nm - ty97 Apr 23, 19:57 1
        
        but it has never teetered on the edge of being good ... so it's still a paradox. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 23, 20:01
I hated getting the AOL CDs in the mail. CDs are so wasteful :( The floppy disks were reusable. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 23, 19:50 6
- now they only send discs in the mail if your a paid user and you request it. I'm a free user so I cant get the discs anymore, and the downloaded - Stacy Apr 23, 20:07
- (Also, I believe I unapologetically mocked AOL users at the time ...) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 23, 19:51
- you mean the AOL coasters? -- nm - loosilu Apr 23, 19:51 3
  - ... you raise a good point. I wasn't much concerned about coasters at the time, though. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 23, 19:52 2
    - people with fruit trees would hang them so the sparkly reflections would scare the black birds away -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 23, 19:56 1
      - I saw a garden the other day where they were using them to reflect (heat? sunlight) back up on the plants. -- nm - psilotum Apr 23, 20:34

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