Comment on AOL Pretends to be the Internet - The History of the Web

• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  only if you visited those places. no aol users were jumpin to usenet or irc

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  • mPony@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    au contraire, mon frere. There were plenty of AOL users on Usenet, stinking up the place.

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• PeutMieuxFaire@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Would that be what is referred to as Eternal September? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

  I discovered it only a few weeks ago and I am sad to say that 1994-1995 was when I went online for the first time. With an AOL "Free 20 hours access". I undoubtedly contributed to degrade the quality of discussions, not mentioning choking several dial-accesses with the freakinig 50x50 pixels pictures I uploaded on my very first homepage.

  Sorry, I'm so sorry…

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  • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That was Usenet, IRC and BBSs didn’t integrate into AOL iirc unless AOL added support for them later, you had to dial into them specifically

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