Comment on With a final screech, AOL's dial-up service goes silent

Talaraine@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  AOL will be remembered more fondly for things like this. But, nobody ever has a fond memory of the software AOL shoved out. It was clampware, unreliable and frequently crashed.

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But they gave out nice coasters

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Eh…I wouldn’t call them “nice”. They were ok. Wouldn’t put them on a nice table.

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    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Before that, they gave out floppy disks. You could tape over the write protect hole and reuse them.

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      • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        But they were 720k. Barely usable

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  • meliante@lemmy.pt ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The early vibe coders.

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