AOL Dialup still has over 2 million subscribers?

[PeoplesElbow]

Or are they people that just havent been able to cancel their subscription?

http://www.technobuffalo.com/2014/08/06/aol-dial-up-still-has-more-subscribers-than-you-would-think/

 

[GURPS]

not everyone has broadband

 

[acommondisaster]

I can't get my father in law to cancel their subscription. (They're in their 70's) They link to it through their cable company ISP and only use it to check their mail. I've put the free aol mail site shortcut on their desktops, and they use it, but he won't cancel. He thinks he'll lose his email account that he's had since AOL 1.0. I've given up; I've told him he doesnt even have a dial up modem hooked up on the last two computers I've bought them.

 

[somdfunguy]

Best option for Netflix by far

 

[LibertyBeacon]

All grandmothers and crazy old aunts who forward those silly chain letters.

 

[GURPS]

All grandmothers and crazy old aunts who forward those silly chain letters.

I filtered those to the recycle bin in the 1990's

 

[StadEMS3]

I've had the same AOL email address since '97. I keep saying I'm going to ditch AOL but never get around it because I'd have to change my contact information on everything.

 

[Larry Gude]

I will never forget the excitement of the first time I dialed up on AOL with my 14,000.

And, I will never forget the growing pain annoyance as it all grew and you couldn't get on.

 

[acommondisaster]

All grandmothers and crazy old aunts who forward those silly chain letters.

I see you know my mother-in-law. I'm constantly clearing out the malware on their computer from all the cute kitty/puppy dog links she clicks on before she forwards them.

 

[acommondisaster]

14.4? Man! That was speedy! I remember. 4.8 and 9.6. Used to dial in at work, go across the street to the deli, pick up a sandwich for lunch, come back and the page would be done loading about the time I got my sandwich unwrapped.I remember a few months a couple of years later when it was hard to get on, AOL gave us free months.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

Started with a 2400 here, the 14.4 was a speed demon and the best upgrade ever, what else ever gave a 6x speed increase for about $75?

In 1994 I tried AOL sample member#### and it was impossible to cancel, my parents were ready to kill me because I would call and cancel and their card just kept getting billed every month.

 

[Beta]

I can't get my father in law to cancel their subscription. (They're in their 70's) They link to it through their cable company ISP and only use it to check their mail. I've put the free aol mail site shortcut on their desktops, and they use it, but he won't cancel. He thinks he'll lose his email account that he's had since AOL 1.0. I've given up; I've told him he doesnt even have a dial up modem hooked up on the last two computers I've bought them.

There's a way in AOL to change from the payed dial up to the free account without losing anything. When I did it (umpteen years ago) the explanation was very direct and it said that the account would be maintained. Go to his house (since he won't do it himself), find the billing section, and that option is probably still there. Easy peasy.

I will never forget the excitement of the first time I dialed up on AOL with my 14,000.

And, I will never forget the growing pain annoyance as it all grew and you couldn't get on.

14,400! My first modem was a 14.4k too

Of course, before AOL (I think I started at 2.5) I used both Prodigy and Compuserve. Prodigy was awesome but Compuserve blew.

 

[GURPS]

so in 1992 I discovered First Class Clients and BBS - using a 2400 baud modem.


I kept reading about this thing called the internet in 94 / 95 so I signed up for a 24 hour trial of AOL Online, but minimized AOL world and went straight for Netscape 2.11 and 'The Net'.

we eventually signed up for Earthlink ..... skipping whole 'training wheels' of AOL

I used a Supra Fax/Modem running at 28.8 ... Ah the Days

 

[TPD]

I started on Compuserv with a Commodore 128 and a 2400 baud modem - ah those were the days!

 

[GWguy]

As long as we're waving our proverbial man-sticks.... I supported a whole bank of 300 baud dial-up modems. Big day when we got some new 1200 baud modems. But we weren't using anything intensive, just TTY emulation running on a Cyber 700 series mainframe.

 

[Larry Gude]

Of course, before AOL (I think I started at 2.5) I used both Prodigy and Compuserve. Prodigy was awesome but Compuserve blew.

I knew of them but, knew nothing about them. It's really neat we all lied those innovative days. I mean from, what the mid to late 90's on to, what, the early 00's, call it a decade, look how far it went! It was some 50 years for flight to go from the Wright Brothers to the jet age and even then, we have machines like 747's and B-52's that, fundamentally, are 50 years old point being they weren't becoming obsolete every 18 months.

What is comparable to the stunning pace of advancement of that age????

 

[GURPS]

1981:






2014:

 

[acommondisaster]

There's a way in AOL to change from the payed dial up to the free account without losing anything. When I did it (umpteen years ago) the explanation was very direct and it said that the account would be maintained. Go to his house (since he won't do it himself), find the billing section, and that option is probably still there. Easy peasy.


14,400! My first modem was a 14.4k too

Of course, before AOL (I think I started at 2.5) I used both Prodigy and Compuserve. Prodigy was awesome but Compuserve blew.

Made the change to free AOL years ago. And yes, it took about a 30 minute phonecall, explaining why I wanted to stop paying for it. I still have several (now free) aol mail accounts that still contain mail in folders back to the early 90's (I'm not an email hoarder, but the copy of an old SF86 in my SENT folder that I'd emailed to my corporate office saved me hours of digging up old info when the computer I'd stored my copy on was long gone).

I've got some pretty intense filters, so I dont get a lot of mail in them anymore and I try to log in every month just to keep them active. No matter how many times I tell my FIL he's already using the FREE AOL mail account I set up for them, he won't cancel the subscription. I've given up wasting my breath, he's not going to cancel. (lol)

We also started with Prodigy and for awhile had both aol and prodigy - i dont remember why we stuck with aol. Earthlink was never stable enough for us.