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I heard the audio last week on Opie and Anthony and since then this guys story has taken off. I see though that AOL hasn't changed it's tactics in 6 or 7 years. Once on NBC's page, click on the June 21st link. It's the guy with the big head. AOL Frustration
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we didn't have that hard of a time but they did call a few times offering new offers and there where some mailings ... but yeah the software is crap anyway ...
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AOL sends out CDs with free software. The marketing must work because they keep sending the Free CDs.
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I like how MSNBC misspelled "explaining" ("explaning") in the transcription.
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They just kept giving us free months when we tried to cancel... Not really sure how that paid for itself because after about 2 or 3 months of free service, we still canceled that crap anyway.
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AOL was a huge, disturbing fad in middle school/high school for me and my friends. Once I outgrew the need for their extra features (AIM) and discovered the "new" DSL and their free aim messenger, we quickly dropped AOL altogether. We almost recieved the same long 20 minute arguement, but we simply reiterated we no longer want the service, and after 3 times of repeating I think they finally understood 
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Originally posted by Pre98:
AOL was a huge, disturbing fad in middle school/high school for me and my friends. Once I outgrew the need for their extra features (AIM) and discovered the "new" DSL and their free aim messenger, we quickly dropped AOL altogether.
My family has had AOL dialup for 12-13 years now. I can recall AOL 2's "Channels" section and text-only messageboards where I looked up information for gradeschool projects. When AOL 3.0 came out with the integrated browser (a big deal!) it took me many tries to figure out that you had to put "http://www" in front of whatever Web address was advertised on TV.
We tried SpryNet for a while when AOL was getting too expensive, but despite dropped calls with AOL it was still more reliable. Everybody I knew in high school had an @aol.com address until DSL came through part of town in 2000 and cable in 2001.
My parents actually still use AOL with our cable connection despite my attempts to wean them off (waste of money!  ) and I have friends who still have AOL dialup at home. There's something about this town and a fear of change, I swear.
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back in the day when i built my first computer (486sx 33mhz 16mb ram) i wanted to get on the internet so i poped in an aol cd and i couldn't get it to dail out for some strange reson witch at the time sucked but now im greatful that it didn't work because i'd still probly have there service till this day
but i tried juno isp and it worked sorta i was able to send and recieve email but the internet was just to much for the computrer it always crashed when i tried it so i gave up needles to say it never really saw the internet 4-5 years later when i built my amd 900mhz machine (top of the line back then)
not long after i switched to roadrunner high speed online
its had its problems
if basicly any thing goes wrong ie: i call in
i few times i have been without service for a week but if you [censored] at them enough the'll give you a half month discounted price
but there answer for any thing rather its to much noise in the cable and the modem can't do anything with it or its there dhcp server not giving the modem and ip address
is reboot the modem /reboot the computer witch might haved worked one time but every other time it didn't work
its working good now
i turned the old computer into a linux router it lasted till i got my latop then i bought a wrt54g
and did an office space number to the ol 486
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