Whats this thing called internet?

[Trip]

I was on compuserve. Went to MSN like two years later. Stayed there til we got high speed cable.

Speaking of AOL, there was a civil engineer (female) at work that's Russian. She was still on AOL a year ago and paying for 25 hours a month. When we found out, we laughed excessively. We had a bunch of fun explaining to her how many years had passed since everybody started offering unlimited hours.

If you knew this lady, you knew she would never say something like this as a joke, this was completely serious.

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by derf

Yes their bussiness model is based around the fact that old people (like my dad) are scared to stop paying for the service because they have had the same email address for the past 20 years and what will people do if they have to change thier email address? I'm serious about this:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2376166,00.asp

My dad has been paying $10 a month for the past decade, and $25 a month for the decade before that. Here is the kicker, he's had broadband through cable company since somewhere around 2000 so he hasn't had to pay for it since then. The only reason he pays that money is that he doesnt want to loose his email address.

LOL, same with my parents, they use something called provide.net

What's the typical rule about email with these companies? Do you instantly lose your email addy after you cancel your service? Or will they auto-forward your email to another address for a certain period of time?

[derf]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

What's the typical rule about email with these companies? Do you instantly lose your email addy after you cancel your service? Or will they auto-forward your email to another address for a certain period of time?

I dont think there is a rule



Anyone remember the days when you can enter a search term into (in pre google days) a search engine and come back with no results?

[Amorok]

I remember going over to my exes house, she had put a curtain made of AOL free internet cds over one of the doors. She was a hippy, cheating bitch. We also used to shoot at those things.

[Particle Man]

I used to use the free AOL cd's as coasters.

[Homeslice]

"You don't need a phone line to communicate over internet?"

No, apparently not."

Uh, yeah, ya kinda did. What did you think, that your PC had an antenna on the back of it?

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

Uh, yeah, ya kinda did. What did you think, that your PC had an antenna on the back of it?

Shhhh - actual facts and the media don't mix...

[azoomm]

This thread makes me smile...

[Papa_Complex]

Friends in the education world hooked me up with Toronto Free Net in 1991. It was a text-only portal to the Internet, run by the universities in Toronto, and accessible via modem. There was no graphic interface, so web pages were only usable in hypertext, but the web wasn't big then anyway. For motorcycle information you went to newsgroups, like rec.motorcycles.

... if you could sift pat the flame wars.

[Avatard]

Ah, NNTP...parts of the Internet most folks don't even know exist.

Most only know HTTP...