ScalziThe September that finally ended
cafuego 🔭🤦🏼♂️@scalzi “It is not yet known when AOL will stop handing out floppy disks”
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Andrew Plotkin@scalzi Wait, _literally_ the last day of September?
That’s effin’ brilliant
🔻Fr∴ Haën🔻@scalzi Next: AIctober. Dress up for winter.
HD Moore@scalzi AOL will live on in our hearts (and at JAWNCON https://jawncon.org/jc0x1.html)
David Emmerson@scalzi Feed line on Usenet, punchline on Mastodon. Nice work.
BigLinter@scalzi didnt even last a 100 years.
makes one sad, ok, back to "p2p based dialups"
makes one sad, ok, back to "p2p based dialups"
lobingera"The September that finally ended" - and roughly 3 generations of internet people will miss that reference
Julio C. Sebastian@scalzi If only... now we have to put up with hordes of uneducated users plus armies of bots.
I appreciate the joke, though ;-)
Milcom MiasmaI hope they're ready for a spike in customer service calls from the over-70 crowd.
Thomas@tbroyer, do you know more about this AOL Shield browser? Does it do something similar to Opera Mini as https://help.aol.com/articles/aol-shield-overview mentions “optimized for users on dial-up internet connections”?
Joseph Dickson@scalzi websites are poorly written as far as page weight goes most are over 4MB per page, I couldn't imagine trying to use the web on dial-up or DSL today. I bet they're all using a terminal window and text based browsers to get by.
Matt McIrvin@scalzi I recall reading somewhere that a large fraction of their user base was elderly loyalists who didn't understand that they already had broadband.