Users who Dugg This
chelsey buhler
1119 Followers
Jessica Bs111111111111111
36 Followers
Anees Saddique
1638 Followers
caffieneman
904 Followers
Aliangel748
628 Followers
Graphic Mania
289 Followers
1storytellerSep 27, 2010
the word is awesome
lqprintSep 27, 2010
wow remember the days when those were the happening providers...
burentoSep 27, 2010
Wow... PeoplePC brings back some memories
segdehaSep 27, 2010
Ah, CompuServe, where you weren't a number, you were a 2 numbers separated by a period.
chops76Sep 27, 2010
Technically, it was a comma; the period was only used in Internet-style e-mail addresses due to technical limitations.
flarn2006Sep 28, 2010
Same today, only it's four numbers now.
smurfzSep 27, 2010
Old school.
amyvernonSep 27, 2010
Wow, I haven't thought about Juno in YEARS. It's among my many abandoned e-mail addresses that I stupidly never backed up my address book from. Sigh.
beshirthappySep 27, 2010
Time does fly, because it seems like yesterday ....
dahrecordsSep 27, 2010
I remember thinking Juno was for poor kids.
Closed AccountSep 27, 2010
then you never saw the price
of their upgrade suggestions :P
zarenSep 27, 2010
AOL is hardly dead. They're still the biggest dialup service in the US. They're still supporting millions of users. They're still the only game in town for large sections of the US where broadband is still a pipe dream.
Closed AccountSep 27, 2010
They also still have as many active e-mail users as Gmail.
Closed AccountSep 28, 2010
I LOVe that pointing out facts always gets buried. Sorry outcasts...but I don't know how it is in hte alternate reality you all live in where you are not pathetic virigns, but in the REAL world, Gmail and AOL Mail has the SAME market share. (Tied for a distant third) That is among ACTIVE users...so don't try to be little bitches nd say "Well, that is only becuase Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL have so many dead accounts."
And remember...burying facts does not CHANGE the facts. Like if you buried a statment talking about how you will die sad and alone, you wouldn't suddenly have a happy life worth living if you buried it.
sigmaman2Sep 27, 2010
I remember dialing up BBSes back in the 70s before the ISP craze took off. Back then, it was pretty revolutionary. You didn't have to rack up long distance charges calling BBSes all over the country. The ISPs always had a local number for you. And there was also a time when the AOL floppies (yes, floppies!) were snail-mailed to you only after you signed up. For their time they were great businesses. Trouble was that full access to the Internet came later, and, well, AOL's business practices...
Closed AccountSep 28, 2010
Wow! you are COOL! You are so old and you were so ADVNACED! Thanks for bragging! that is certainly something to be proud of! You spent the decade of free and easy sex on a f**king computer!
sigmaman2Sep 28, 2010
No...I spent the 70s in elementary and middle school.
But that was a very nice jump to a conclusion though.
Closed AccountSep 27, 2010
7 Dead ISPs....then they mention how the first two still exist. Nice.
Closed AccountSep 27, 2010
Wait...so of these 7, 4 stil exist today (ie. NOT DEAD) and one is a BROWSER and not an ISP?
Just call this "Let's talk about some old interent stuff!" instead of "dead ISPs."
mizzerdSep 27, 2010
Where is GEnie?
daedoneSep 27, 2010
trapped in a bottle
shozikuSep 27, 2010
Yeah they totally did not mention GEnie. They were around when compuserv was. And GEnie was a much better service. They provided online mechwarrior! woot. As well as other MMO's. yeah, mmo's. Gemstone, and many other games... mechwarrior was graphical, the others were text based.
Closed AccountSep 27, 2010
my friend runs a wordpress blog highlighting bbs'es that are still running - http://bbsing.wordpress.com/
trick07Sep 28, 2010
What about MindSpring? It was a great company that sold out to EarthLink. I had left shortly before the merger for PacBell DSL... until then I had used MindSpring pretty much since the start.
dzorteaSep 28, 2010
I can of a few more that belong! Actually, a LOT more.