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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+79Now AOL is worth $20,000,009,214.
- Yorn, on 10/12/2007, -6/+43I can't believe this story is still being voted up. Look at the other stories on the website, people, this story is inaccurate and possibly even fradulent. Someone just made the website to poke fun at AOL and you're all digging this as if it's legit. Hell, the person might have even made the website just to make money with all the ads on it.
No source means this is likely a fraud. - LiquidPenguin, on 10/12/2007, -5/+42Crap, makes me wish I didn't destroy my 1.0 disks.
- joebrodie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+38eBayer must have really wanted to hear "You've got mail" in its Win 3.1 glory (that is if you had all your IRQ sound card settings right).
- oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24after further review, i believe this is a satirical piece. apologies.
- Gordaen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22'It's a 5 1/2" floppy, double-sided, double-density with all the original packaging.'
Is that a misquote? There were 8" 5.25" and 3.5" and the picture shows the 3.5" disk. - PAJK, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23"Hell, the person might have even made the website just to make money with all the ads on it."
You just defined online businesses, in large part. - celchu33, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17This is satire, but submitted as fact. Reported as inaccurate.
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12People who spell like jackasses should not throw stones...
- leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14I've got a version 1.1 aol disc. and a version 2, 3 etc... just no 1.0 :(
- wistar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I wonder what a shrink-wrapped copy of Microsoft Bob can bring.
- nogoodreason, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Just in case anyone's in any doubt as to the validity of the articles on that site, take a look at their report on Steve Irwin:
http://www.glossynews.com/artman/publish/irwin_09052006.shtml - eridius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9"Please don't mark this article as inaccurate--the owner is NOT trying to pass this off as real news, just poking fun at AOL."
The owner may not have been, but whomever submitted this story sure didn't make any effort to indicate it's satire. - ac3boy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Lemme guess...Golden Palace bought it.
- leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9most likely 3.5" and not 5.25".
- Reliant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7eh, it'll make a nice coaster for a beer perhaps!
- elroy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8perhaps he can use some of his $9k to buy a ruler.
yeah, i went there. - generalleoff, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10No clue if this particular story is legit or fake but if it is fake it is not very far from the truth. People DO spend big money for rare AOL discs. There is a thriving collectors market. Kinda pisses me off that I used to wipe AOL discs for free discs back when 1.44MB floppies still cost something.
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I really, really wish you were kidding.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1568849222?v=glance - Bamborzled, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yeah, here's what http://www.glossynews.com/ has in their homepage:
"Satire is for the thinking man, the man who searches for truth but accepts that he will only find lies. It is a message to the people, but not one so explicit as propaganda. Satire is designed to make you think, perhaps about pleasure, perhaps about pain, but always about yourself. Read these pages, but do not take them at face value. Read other news channels, but question them just as much. The revolution does not begin in the streets, but in your heart. Do you believe it is coming? Do you know what questions to ask? Do you even have the capacity to discern pleasure from pain? (oh, and if you're one of those God damned search engine optimizing companies who thinks I'm "search-term stuffing", you need to actually read this. It's a message and it don't hardly got a keyword in it at all, bitch."
I'm starting to think that Digg users will submit anything remotely believable because it sounded cool. - theblackgecko, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The piece is done well enough to pull it off, but linking to AOL sells 36% share in Nigerian government is a tip-off.
- st1nkf1nger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7That's crazy..
I have some dirty socks I'm willing to sell, they're even signed in Sharpie! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Glossy News", c'mon people are you really that dumb?
- Wamzlee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4you got me all excited too....because I was like "I am sure I have those disks still somewhere!"
- ccanni1028, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Even though it is a fake, it still made me laugh. Dugg.
- oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3no. actually he posted this link in the "aol 20 billion" thread. i was unaware he was going to submit it as a story. my submission was before his .. but prior to even knowing that, i wanted to pay him credit as the source.
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Surely he had to douse it in holy water before it was safe to touch. The evil has been seething for years in that thing.
- PsychoPNut, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Shut up.
- apeweek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have AOL 1.0. But it didn't come as a standalone disk. It was bundled with Geoworks, and only ran on Geoworks.
It was the one and only time I tried AOL.
I think I kept that account for about a week. Even then, it was a bitch to cancel. - nogoodreason, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"with none available being sold at that price"
And rest assured the ones that ARE for sale are from people who believed this article. - djNullSpace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dugg because I found it funny, even though it's obviously not true.
- wistar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Holy smokes. A book I wished I had bought for laughs, "Microsoft Bob for Dummies," is selling for $1800 on amazon.
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sell it!
- BWhaler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would of given him one for free. Seriously. I've got a bunch in my attic.
I hate to judge, but this is pretty crazy. - teddyrux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"A chair ostensibly stolen from AOL corporate headquarters, sold for an unbelievable $36, fully $8 over and above fair market value."
ROFLCOPTER! - Apoc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1O_O
http://www.glossynews.com/artman/publish/article_143.shtml
I wish that was fact. - eclectro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just a FYI - they are worth tens of dollars for the rare ones. Also, AOL just announced that they have stopped making the CDs. So the only way is up!
Kidding aside, it's not hard to see why people collect them. AOL did everything in their power design-wise to stop people from chucking them. Many of them are quite pretty and unique. There's even a wikipeda entry;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_disk_collecting - SIDSI, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good lord I have a bunch of those
- foxsynergy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I kept one one of those old GeoWorks monstrousities around just for the heck of it. I wonder how much I can get for mine, what with it being all sticky with ages-old cherry brandy.
- theunderground5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1a year ago i threw away a disk that looked just like that i just have to keep telling myself it wasn't worth that much :(
- wistar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, I knew when I first saw the book that it'd be collectible. I just wish I had bought it. Especially in light of the current selling price.
I do have a still shrink-wrapped version of Word 1.0 on floppies... - TKDWILSON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow. I bet all their CD's are worth more than the company itself.
- wistar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I doubt the price was set arbitrarily.
- h0dg3s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There's a sucker born every minute.
The description says it's a 5 1/2" floppy but the picture is of a 3 1/4"
So either it's the wrong picture or the guy is wrong. - h0dg3s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1oops i mixed the fractions up
- crashingechelon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If this were true, i wish i still had my 1.0 disk i could only find my 1.1 disk and i dont even remember if i formatted it or not. good thing i still have an A: drive which seems to be rare
- sstidman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2That's one Amazon affiliate selling one book. He can put any price he wants on it, that doesn't mean he will get that price. The price is meaningless until some fool actually buys it.
- gd007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i will sell mine for 1/10 of $9,214.00.
- pmcall221, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have and AOL Disk that's a 5.25. It comes with 5 Hours free! I wounder how much its worth?
- sleepless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I still have a stack of those. And not the 1.44 version, but the 720k version, LOL!
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