AOL Begging!

[P. Aaron]

Have you seen the commercial yet where the excited couple (w' cool lookin' house) get another AOL disc in the mail only to mount it in a cool Fish sculpture? Then as they admire their work, Jerry Stiller(?) asks(begs) them to give that version of AOL a try?

Are things that bad for AOL?

 

[cobrasneverdie]

Originally posted by P. Aaron
Have you seen the commercial yet where the excited couple (w' cool lookin' house) get another AOL disc in the mail only to mount it in a cool Fish sculpture? Then as they admire their work, Jerry Stiller(?) asks(begs) them to give that version of AOL a try?

Are things that bad for AOL?

yes. yes they are.

 

[bryan bailey]

AOL is the worse thign to happen to the iternet.

Buit hackers get a kick out of booting and annoying them.

And the users deserve it. They knew what they were getting into.

 

[Wrong Robot]

AOL is pretty shoddy, but AIM ain't bad. Well, I don't use AIM, but the network isn't bad that is.

The new version of AOL allows AOL accounts to purchase music from the iTunes music store. fwiw

 

[Osama_Spears]

AOL sucks

 

[jrthebassguy]

in the very beginning AOL was decent...but they're still stuck in 1996 or so.

 

[P. Aaron]

I have Internet Explorer. It came with the Dell we purchased a few years back. It's O.K. Maybe there's better, but for the price...what th' heck?

My mom uses AOL and I ask her why? all the time. She's gotta pay for it, plus her monthly cable bill for internet. The tools and features eat 1/3rd of the screen, and the browser and tools are just marginal, if unexceptional.

All I got $$$ per month is my Cable internet bill.

 

[jrthebassguy]

speaking of AOL cds...

last year at school this one kid got a hold of several hundred AOL cds, and thus was forever known as AOL Mannnnnnnnnn! (add in echo-y "Man" by yourself)

He went around "fighting injustice" by throwing AOL cds everywhere. He's also a very skinny, agile guy, so he went around like a ninja throwing them like chinese stars. We even caught some of it on tape. He even got in a fight with a kid and brought the AOL cds and actually stunned the guy with an AOL disc straight to the forehead.

Doesn't sound so great on paper, but man, that was hilarious.

 

[Stephen Soto]

Originally posted by Wrong Robot
AOL is pretty shoddy, but AIM ain't bad. Well, I don't use AIM, but the network isn't bad that is.

The new version of AOL allows AOL accounts to purchase music from the iTunes music store. fwiw

i'm sorry man. i don't know about you, but i would never buy anything, especially music, through AOL.

 

[Wrong Robot]

iTunes music store...NOT AOL music store.

you still use apple's software to purchase, BUT now you can use your AOL account to LOGIN to the iTunes music store.

you aren't using AOL to buy anything, just the login, the sale goes through iTunes though.

 

[20db pad]

Now wait just a minizzle !!

 

[5stringDNA]

AOL is a rip-off, and always has been. People are finally starting to notice and it is killing the company. I personally think that all modem dial-up is a rip-off for anyone who uses the internet more than 2 hours a day (total household). The cost of an extra phone line (so you don't piss all your friends off) and the ISp service is equal to broadband cost in most areas.

 

[Stephen Soto]

Originally posted by Wrong Robot
iTunes music store...NOT AOL music store.

you still use apple's software to purchase, BUT now you can use your AOL account to LOGIN to the iTunes music store.

you aren't using AOL to buy anything, just the login, the sale goes through iTunes though.

oh. aol probably contaminates it somehow. no, is it your AIM name? that would be pretty nice.

 

[Peter McFerrin]

Man, I'd hate to be a Time Warner shareholder right now.

 

[Wrong Robot]

Originally posted by Stephen Soto
oh. aol probably contaminates it somehow. no, is it your AIM name? that would be pretty nice.

Well, I don't use AOL, but I though that your AOL screen-name was synonymous with your AIM handle.

in which case, yes, it should work, but if that's not how it works(like for instance, if there are multiple screen-names on one account) then no, it wouldn't work, I think it'd just be the account name.

in fact, if you don't use AOL you won't be able to access the iTunes music store with your AOL account, but since accounts on the iTunes music store are 100% free, it's not really an issue ya know?

the whole thing is really more of a convenience thing for AOL users, since Apple and AOL recently formed some sort of deal.

 

[pyrohr]

AOL sucks period!
AOL takes over your computer and attaches itself to all of your files. The chatrooms are a joke. I once (for sh*ts ang giggles) went into a religous chatroom and that too had the little porn bots in it. AOL is just a mess. There is no reason for someone to subject their self to something like AOL. I have not used AOL in three years and there is a BIG difference in the operation of my computer.It no longer freezes and locks up on me. Those free AOL disc they mail me don't make it into my house, I throw them away on the spot! You could not give me AOL free for life!

 

[P. Aaron]

Remember that episode of that FOX(sci-fi comedy) cartoon featuring the space version of the '80's "garbarge"? Made up primarily of unused & discarded AOL discs?

 

[PollyBass]

AOL is a joke. Always has been.

It's for people that don't know any better.

And it used to be that the internet was just something people wanted, and got AOL, because they knew JACK about computers.

EVERYONE today knows about the internet. Thats why I think AOL is suffering.

 

[Jay]

Originally posted by 20db pad
Now wait just a minizzle !!

AOL sucks, but I must admit that the commercial is pretty dadgum funny, in a pathetic kind of way.

 

[reasonbass]

AOhelL!