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- superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Good, its about god damn time
- streetlamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh I thought AOL had finally taken its customers hostage and were killing 300 an hour until its demands have been met.
- Matt2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1With Verizon offering DSL at $14.99 a month, it's really hard to justify paying for dialup.
- MetalMilitia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm going to miss all the fun times i had with their promotional Cd's, I like to pop them in the microwave... i found out popcorn mode works best.
Thanks AOL for all the fun times - myrrdyn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1AOL is the sweaty goo in the armpit of the internet. It has always been a pain in the butt to me. When I was helping some clueless user 'fix the AOL' so they could have internet (and some continue to equate internet access with AOL even though they haven't actually used AOL in years), AOL was a complete and utter pain to deal with. Slow connections, crappy support, a huge kluge of a browser app (originally built as an overlay on another kluge app, Internet Explorer) have always been the hallmark of AOL services. Is it any surprise that people are finally realizing there are low-cost alterantives to AOL? Especially after people around them start telling them what a different experiece they had after switching to _insert_ISP_here_?
- pinkfireball, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1+digg to the person who puts up a graphic of this
- flock31070, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm still AOLing :D
- clemonator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This story is made even better by the fact that just today I got yet another AOL CD which I promptly gave to my 2 year old - which will last in all about 10 seconds before she wrecks it.
Thanks AOL - sporkman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1honestly, AOL discs must account for like 1% of landfills in America...
- nlatimer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"For a business of any size to lose 678,000 customers in three months -- that's more than 300 subscribers an hour -- you have to be doing something wrong. Maybe everything."
I think they've been doing everything wrong for a very long time. - terrya64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I am personally responsible for getting about 10 people/family's off Aohell. It's funny when I suggest they ditch AOL they usually say but how will I get on the Internet? It seems that most AOL users think that the Internet they are surfing is inside AOL. I especially love the look on their face when I Shut down the AOL garbage and connect just using the dialer and then start the browser and tell them here you go! They are usually in shock that they didn't need all that AOL crap running.
After that AOL is usually history. - Crazy_8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0CDs in the Microwave? Bah, thats been done with many CDs. The big time was when we collected about a hundred of the things from different people and decorated a christmas tree with them! Keep in mind, this wasn't in our house. We did this outside near the street for everyone to see!
- sorcefire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I can't believe that people still think that AOL is the "internet". It's been nearly 10 years and you still can't cancel your account w/o having to drive up there and shake someone around.
btw...thought the whole ad campaign about the curtain was funny as hell, shows how stupid some people are about the world. - OhBrian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Repeat after me, "I will check spelling before posting".
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0burn baby, burn!
- stokestack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I doubt the internet would have become the shopping and entertainment medium it is"
I doubt the Internet would have become the treasure trove of ***** E-mails about missing kids in Minnesota and Bill Gates giving you $100 if you forward this message to 25 people.
AOL has always been a glorified bulletin-board system that tacked on Internet access as an afterthought. Lame rip-off of CompuServe, although CompuServe deserved to go down after having such stupid user IDs: 54325,2344. WTF? - jagnum1fan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The only reason we ever (and I'm sure I am speaking for a LOT of people here...) used AOL/Compuserve, was the good deals you could get on things if you subscribed for like 3 years or something
my dad still uses compuserve and we have DSL. But, he uses it because if he quites it, he is going to get a nice bill from __insert_company_here__. Evil bastards... - Reddog_x2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yes, the programming sucks. The customer service and tech support suck. But, they've got a buttload of TW content. I bet they give it a go as either a subscription based or ad-supported portal.
- qishi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Puzzling thing I encountered the other day: A friend's family gets a brand new PC, and broadband internet. What's the first thing they do online? Get their AOL software up and running. Why do people do this?
- drseth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Learn to spell. Clap clap clap.
- chrisu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0AOL deserve to go under purely for what they did to great applications like WinAmp and ICQ. I'll never forget when they added ad banners to ICQ. I still use Winamp 2.x because AOL have done nothing to improve it, they have just added more bloat and thats all.
- chrisu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0AOL are absolutely aweful and I'm glad to see its beginning to hit their bottom line.
- ThisMessIAmIn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Now, remind me why Google and Microsoft are locked in a death struggle to buy this business?
Sure, I know they have a lot of customers, but they're losing customers. Furthermore, it's a company tied (or perhaps "chained" would be a more appropriate term) to its proprietary software, which is, in turn, a holdover from dial-up days, when people had to configure a SLIP or PPTP connection and COM ports and AOL just made things work.
Yahoo made a great move in getting out of this bidding war. AOL is going down the tubes and as far as I'm concerned, the sooner, the better. - raindog469, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dude, Steve Case hasn't been running AOL for like a couple years now.
- kas187, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ive just actually terminated my contract with aol (uk) and will be switching to a new isp in 4 days time, AOL=CRAP!
- xst4t1kx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We get a new and "improved" AOL CD from them every month. So do millions of other people, nearly all of them contributing an AOL CD to their local land fills at the same rate.
- LynchMOB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0+digg!!
DIE AOLHELL!!
I recently cleaned a friends PC of virus' and spyware but the biggest problem was some part of AOL would use 100% CPU usage everytime you started the PC. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it was only a matter of time. I'm actually surprised they survived this long.
- Elxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hurray for this, AOL is certainly a dark blotch of the interweb. People really need to see the light.
- diggnationdevon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For Verizon offering DSL service for as low as 14.95 a month why pay more for a crappier connection and a crappy services?
- x2dx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0DOWN WITH AOL
- happysmurfday, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I contributed to this statistic last month (after months of trying to cancel, only to be given yet another free month). I still kept my e-mail address and AIM name, but sadly I can't use the slow, clunky client anymore. :p
- CaughtThinking, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0AOL was always compuserv on steroids for the new generation. I think Google and Digg bring something new to the table. On this note though, I have a great clock someone made out of an aol cd, it's very kitsch, and I recommend you all get one ;)
- cwoolf34, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Proud user of Cable internet since 1998. Had AOL back in '95 and I thought it was cool, but my dad hated it and switched to earthlink, then in '98 we got cable internet. Funny to see a lot of my friends that were all about AOL talk crap about them now. I was the outkast when I had dial up, all my friends asked why my browser looked so weird. lol. Just gotta love the AOL for broadband scam though. AOL is for soccer mom's and teenage girls, oh and old people too! I guess it's a lot like being an early adopter of the ipod and having lots of people ask "what the hell is that thing, where do you put the CD?" Call me a nerd/ geek, but in the end the average joe is just a late adopter of what the geeks use. RIP AOL. (taps).
- Boondoggle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0At that rate they will lose half their subscribers in under 4 years. Probably sooner, as that rate of loss cannot be sustained.
- Flyngwalrus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0YES!
- andy787, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You guys are such idiots.
- TVarmy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Let's now focus on the unholy alience of AOL and WalMart that is WalMart Connect. It's terrible, and the browser is based on AOL 6.0, of all the old crap.
- jdavid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Does anyone here remember the day when they "tried" to leave AOL all those years ago. I was a prodigy user when it first came out, I was like 5 or something, within a few short years, AOL had unlimited "internet" for a flat monthly fee. After one year of the service never working, and crashing the computer we moved on to a "real" ISP, Concentric I think, well 3 months later AOL was still billing us, I have looked down on them ever since.
- ChewyBass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I always said AOL stood for Another Online Loser. Bye bye,
- Chrisms20, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I didn't believe people were still on AOL since I never really used it myself. But then I realized some of my family members still use it. I've been trying to get them to switch for months now, with no luck. Some people like only what they are used to I guess.
- biggiefrye45, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thank god i hate aol with a passion
- joelp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ef em in the Aol
- driedwater, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yeah i had to threaten a lawsuit when they wouldn't cancel my account and claimed that I agreed to be with them for 1 year when i never freakin did. (they cancelled right away without charging me more) I poped in the aol because sadly that was the only ISP CD i had with me when i went on vacation.
- meista, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I at first read the title to mean that AOL is bleeding 300 customers an hour to death and thought: 'damn - I knew big corporate business is evil, but it turning into blood-thirsty vampires, that's news to me!'
- timeshifter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I moved a customer off of AOL the other day and made the phone call to cancel for her. At the end of the conversation I was told that she'll get to keep her email address for life, no charge. I wonder if they're doing this for everyone now?
- ed.2112, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Die!
- doxtorray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Although it is now a doddering wizened old man drooling on himself, AOL at one time was the dynamic champion of the internet frontier. In fact, I doubt the internet would have become the shopping and entertainment medium it is if AOL had not brought it down to the masses. In the first few years, AOL provided good proprietary content, low prices (compared to the alternatives) and a safe gateway to the broader internet.
AOL now is Google (and maybe even Digg) in five or ten years. - IraqManiac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I remember about 3-4 years ago when I found out that AOL was still billing me for like 2 months after I had cancelled and so I called them up to cancel... then, after being on hold for 25+ minutes, this douchefag would not stop offering me another free month so I threatened a lawsuit and he shutup real fast
- DarkCastle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Eh, I've never had a problem with AOL. I don't use them for internet access mind you, but I do for e-mail. I've had my email a long, long, long time and I don't want to have to switch e-mails at all so they best stick around. People try to convince me that I should switch to Gmail or Yahoo, but no thank you. I don't like either of their interfaces. Plus, having re-subscribe to mailing lists, redo my email on all the sites I shop, message boards, etc too much work.
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