Square Wheels Posted September 11, 2021 Share #1 Posted September 11, 2021 you got an AOL CD in the mail? 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted September 11, 2021 Share #2 Posted September 11, 2021 2 minutes ago, Square Wheels said: you got an AOL CD in the mail? What I remember more was being enticed by their ads in magazines, on heavy rough off-white stock with light blue print extolling the virtues of their service. They got me to go online but on prodigy instead because those were the only local numbers around me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Far ★ Posted September 11, 2021 Share #3 Posted September 11, 2021 LOL, I was just talking about AOL CDs with Poot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted September 11, 2021 Share #4 Posted September 11, 2021 The problem with AOL CDs is they were not biodegradable. Otherwise they would make great target practice. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerrySTL ★ Posted September 11, 2021 Share #5 Posted September 11, 2021 1 minute ago, Longjohn said: The problem with AOL CDs is they were not biodegradable. Otherwise they would make great target practice. I would tie a string of them together with fishing line and put a lead weight on the bottom. Then I'd hang them from a tree. Between the sun and wind, they would make nice flashes. After a few months the silver and paint would peel off but leaving just the plastic. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted September 11, 2021 Share #6 Posted September 11, 2021 3 minutes ago, Longjohn said: The problem with AOL CDs is they were not biodegradable. Otherwise they would make great target practice. Didn’t people make all kinds of stuff with them? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted September 11, 2021 Share #7 Posted September 11, 2021 I bet we still have a couple in a box of treasures in the basement. Will they ever be a collectible piece of history? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen ★ Posted September 11, 2021 Share #8 Posted September 11, 2021 2 minutes ago, Longjohn said: The problem with AOL CDs is they were not biodegradable. Otherwise they would make great target practice. They did. There are still flecks of holographic plastic mixed with lead daisies under the steel on the rifle range. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted September 11, 2021 Share #9 Posted September 11, 2021 Although we seemingly got hundreds of them in the mail I never inserted any of them in my computer. One time we bought a Gateway computer. It came with a years free AOL. We tried it for less than a week and said this sucks and never used it again. A year later they started billing me for it. No matter what I did to cancel it they still kept billing me. I got my bank involved and they removed the charges from my account. A couple years later I got a check in the mail from a class action suit for the amount of three months service. I have a brother in law that I think still uses AOL. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted September 11, 2021 Share #10 Posted September 11, 2021 Yup,I know a few people that still have an aol.com mail address. At least they did a few years ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirwickWithCheese Posted September 11, 2021 Share #11 Posted September 11, 2021 9 minutes ago, Philander Seabury said: Yup,I know a few people that still have an aol.com mail address. At least they did a few years ago. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted September 11, 2021 Share #12 Posted September 11, 2021 Just now, AirwickWithCheese said: But of course! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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