techdirt.com — After much speculation, AOL announced today that it would finally bite the bullet, and become a free portal, complete with free AOL email addresses for anyone who wants one. The company says it now wants to exploit the "explosive rise in broadband usage and online advertising", though, of course, it's already missed out on much of the explosion.
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psbpv3oAug 3, 2006
I dont get it. I have had a free aol account for ages. I used the email until I discovered how mest up the spam filters are (they deleted my important email as spam and still couldn't filter the spam.)
johnholdenAug 3, 2006
Way back in the day, I used to take the 3.5" floppies they'd mail out and reformat them... it was like a book-of-the-month (week) club, but for free floppy disks. Each one had a stylish label that was easily covered with a piece of masking tape. Couldn't beat the convenience of free home delivery... then they switched to those damned CDs and I lost interest.
Closed AccountAug 3, 2006
AOL, yet again, showing up late to the party (free email account this time). Remember when AOL went on and on about how you could "chat" with other AOL users like it was some sort of major break though... IRC had been around for how many years by then? Then AOL got up and danced around because you could put photos in email.... like the rest of the world had been for 3 or 4 years already. Holly s**t, then they came up with a way to listen to music online... like any shoutcast user had been for a while. How many of you nearly s**t in your pants when AOL came out with virus protetions for paying members... cutting edge I tell you.
speaker219Aug 3, 2006
This post has been posted over and over and over again.... 5 pages of the same thing.<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/search?s=aol+free">http://digg.com/search?s=aol+free</a>
samy293Aug 3, 2006
Has anyone noticed? This story has only 6 negative comments... The least I have ever seen! Seems like everyone loves AOL:)
nichumAug 4, 2006
You couldn't get me to switch to AOL if they gave their services away for free ;-)
youdontsayAug 7, 2006
Oh, how I miss the good old days.... every month I'd wait for another free 3 1/2 free floppy in the mail.Soon I had enough to re-roof the dog house and add decorative detail around the doorway.But when they switched to CDs... well, you can only use so many coasters on the coffee table.sigghh. (reminiscing)
winner436Jan 3, 2007
i hope they send CD-Rs insted of Cds not, u know if u have a Cd burner? Anyway wut does this mean---> xD