And since I started using iChat, I've not even used AOL's own client for the AIM protocol. In fact, Instant Messenger is really the only AOL product I've ever personally used. Now, in the age of broadband, AOL is mainly a portal, similar to Yahoo or MSN, offering original web-based content in addition to e-mail, Xdrive onlne storage, and AOL Instant Messenger. In those early days of dial-up access, AOL was a friendly, graphics-heavy BBS with its own walled garden of proprietary content "channels" and e-mail system that offered access to the "rest" of the Internet to its users. So I just used a piece of tape over the write-protect notch and had an endless supply of free floppy disks.īut that was then this is now. AOL was for n00bs, people afraid of telnet and gopher and pine. Not me, though I used the real Internet via a shell account at Purdue University. In the early-to-mid 90s, as far as most people were concerned, AOL was the Internet. It has been many years since since I have seen those ubiquitous floppy disks that had proprietary access software and gave a free one month trial to America Online.
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