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Macnult

https://youtu.be/Pk3jgYTbHzU

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Macnult

it’s new aol (version 7.0)

Macnult

stopping by the grocery store to cop a free AOL version 7.0 disk

Heather Papps

hello friend


dreaming of an internet you have to be at least 18 to use



thanks Dumb Sex-Parrot and deep dish peat moss for this winter bounty!

Macnult


SurfSam, do you copy?

Macnult

Heather Papps posted:

dreaming of an internet you have to be at least 18 to use

until then, your copy of new aol version 7.0 will either serve as a frisbee or a coaster

Macnult

feeling intense guilt because i took two aol disks and yes they’re free but you’re only supposed to take one why on earth did i take two my family only has one computer

funny way to spell
what did the CDs even do... i remember taking them bu t i never used them because we had earthlink at home.

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN


I put my thumb up my bum and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth.


it's amazing both how much and how little the internet has changed since then

Areola Grande

it's a free country u pervs

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:

it's amazing both how much and how little the internet has changed since then

a/s/l or log off



tyvm Justa Dandelion and Ravenous Scoot

Manifisto


I'm the guy at :20 looking at his headphones like "holy poo poo, sound comes out of these things? is there anything aol can't do?"


ty nesamdoom!

Finger Prince


Heather Papps

hello friend




thanks Dumb Sex-Parrot and deep dish peat moss for this winter bounty!

google THIS

google THIS

I'm the navbar or strip of tabs of whatev getting some action with that 0

Manifisto


google THIS posted:

I'm the navbar or strip of tabs of whatev getting some action with that 0

between that and the husky whispered "version 7.0" I think they are attempting to suggest "hey it's for porn too!" without literally saying so


ty nesamdoom!

google THIS

Version numbers were so impressive back then. The higher the better, and never omitting the all important "point oh," signifying maximum bugginess.

If anyone had dared to release a version kajillion point oh of something they would have blown Microsoft out of the water.

Manifisto


google THIS posted:

Version numbers were so impressive back then. The higher the better, and never omitting the all important "point oh," signifying maximum bugginess.

If anyone had dared to release a version kajillion point oh of something they would have blown Microsoft out of the water.

yeah, but also, "point oh" is sexy, whereas "point zero" is nerdy

too bad they lacked "point six nine" technology back then, things would have been much simpler


ty nesamdoom!

Kaiser Schnitzel

Schnitzel mit uns


Ay oh ell version four twenty point six nine


https://i.imgur.com/R8ctked.mp4
ty Manifisto for this wonderful sig!


Macnult

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:

it's amazing both how much and how little the internet has changed since then

godspeed john glenn version seven point oh

Macnult

b y o b version seven point oh
*bong rip*
”check PMs”

google THIS


Ok hol' up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I03o5i6q5s



BaileyXJ? ChrisAGill? Some combination of Sam and Surf? Possibly more but it's hard to tell because Dbag McHair is standing on the list in the other commercial? We need to figure out who these people are. They appear in at least two different point oh's.

Escape From Noise

What. What version on AOL?

Heather Papps

hello friend


WOW okay 7.0 i used to think you were cool, but, well, here we are.



thanks Dumb Sex-Parrot and deep dish peat moss for this winter bounty!

Manifisto


Heather Papps posted:

WOW okay 7.0 i used to think you were cool, but, well, here we are.

question though about 8.0: does it know anything about hackers? can it jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace?


ty nesamdoom!

Jaguars!


Macnult posted:

godspeed john glenn version seven point oh

This is very disturbing I thought the average was four point three

google THIS

Heather Papps posted:

WOW okay 7.0 i used to think you were cool, but, well, here we are.

Chat, gab, gossip, whatever

super sweet best pal

It's been decades, what version of AOL are they on now.

vanisher

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN


I put my thumb up my bum and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth.


Jaguars! posted:

This is very disturbing I thought the average was four point three

where we're going, we don't need average

Escape From Noise

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:

where we're going, we don't need average

I'll show myself out

weed cat

weed cat is back, and he loves to suck dick



:sueme:
alternatively AOL never could have dreamed of the wonders of today's internet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n3pFFPSlW4

pixaal

All ice cream is now for all beings, no matter how many legs.


guys the Disk is too big for my drive like way too big. Also I think it's covered in a thin layer of loose plastic is this where the data is stored? How am I supposed to keep it safe?

It's not a 3.5 floppy, is this a 5.25? I think my friend has a 5.25 drive, is not what size is this?

Manifisto


pixaal posted:

guys the Disk is too big for my drive like way too big. Also I think it's covered in a thin layer of loose plastic is this where the data is stored? How am I supposed to keep it safe?

It's not a 3.5 floppy, is this a 5.25? I think my friend has a 5.25 drive, is not what size is this?

MAH DISK IS TOO BIG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PONvX6LmAPo


ty nesamdoom!

The Breakfast Sampler


I used to work for AOL! as a contract person in the early 2000's. phone tech support. it was the coolest / weirdest job ever then everything got outsourced. we mostly supported 5.0 and 6.0.

pixaal

All ice cream is now for all beings, no matter how many legs.


What was the most basic question you got from someone that thought they knew what they were talking about but clearly didn't?

Like a "my hard drive must be dying I keep getting pop ups!" type of thing

Macnult

The Breakfast Sampler posted:

I used to work for AOL! as a contract person in the early 2000's. phone tech support. it was the coolest / weirdest job ever then everything got outsourced. we mostly supported 5.0 and 6.0.

how big were the changes with each new version? when aol 7.0 dropped i was only old enough to be affected by advertising and not the new features aol had to offer

pixaal

All ice cream is now for all beings, no matter how many legs.


pixaal posted:

guys the Disk is too big for my drive like way too big. Also I think it's covered in a thin layer of loose plastic is this where the data is stored? How am I supposed to keep it safe?

It's not a 3.5 floppy, is this a 5.25? I think my friend has a 5.25 drive, is not what size is this?

Okay the plastic layer came off and the disk looks like it opens? should I open it? Did I break it? I want my ah oh el seven point oh!



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The Breakfast Sampler


Macnult posted:

how big were the changes with each new version? when aol 7.0 dropped i was only old enough to be affected by advertising and not the new features aol had to offer

I remember 5.0 and 6.0 being similar enough, and not too much trouble usually. I think 7.0 came around the time they were shutting down my place. 7.0 seemed like it had a lot of problems, because everything before was built around dial-up, plus everyone was going to broadband then anyway (if I remember right, this was when they were trying to roll out their own broadband service and it failed because it was pointless, just AOL bolted on to Time Warner and up-charged (I think, it's been a long time!)

the only difficult ones really were the much older versions (like, I think we were required to try and support back to 4.0 but no further.) my saddest call was this older guy who obviously had a lot of problems trying to connect with some virus-riddled 386 or something running windows 3.1. he was crying by the time I got the call ended because I couldn't do anything for him, everything he was running was unsupported by then. but it was a fun job at the time (well, the people I worked with, less the job) and I was making a lot of money for a college sophomore.

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