From the old days of dial-up...

[underemployeed]

This thread reminded me up until 1-2months ago my gf's father was still using the AOL 9.0 Optimized blah blah to do his e-mail. Refusing to believe you can access it from AOL.com, after I nuked his computer due to the excessive viruses and spyware that ran his computer at 100% on idle to the point the case had to be left opened to prevent over heating, To my knowledge he hasn't reinstalled.... only because he wasn't sure where he put that relic disk. I have a bunch somewhere as a novelty but there is no way I want to let him know that.

[teh_blumchenkinder]

AOL? It's still around?? Geeze... I remember getting AOL 9.0 discs in the mail in 2004... o___o oh dear pie tell me it's not that old... *goes to look*
Oh dear pie.
/tips over, *bluscreen'd*

[Jay 2K Winger]

AOL? It's still around?? Geeze... I remember getting AOL 9.0 discs in the mail in 2004... o___o oh dear pie tell me it's not that old... *goes to look*
Oh dear pie.
/tips over, *bluscreen'd*

My friend Rick O'Shay always used to joke he collected those so he could re-roof his house with them.

[Salted Grump]

Umm, which ISP? None of the major ones I know of are that brutal.

Ripnet.

Location-wise, Eastern Ontario, near the Capital.

The equipment costs were a one-off to install the DSL antenna and wire the house.

As for the fees, well, it seems that both Bell and Rogers are squeezing on the smaller ISPs to try to get a larger market share. Yay. And I'm not paying 1500$ for Sat, Or 15,000$ for cable, just for the install. (we checked; this ISP is the ~cheapest~ in the area.)

[teh_blumchenkinder]

Sorry about the misinformation, SaltedGrump. It must be someone else who lives way out there.
That's even worse, however.

[dalesys]

My friend Rick O'Shay always used to joke he collected those so he could re-roof his house with them.

If the CD's are anything like AOL the house won't be bullet-proof!

[xaenon]

If the CD's are anything like AOL the house won't be bullet-proof!

Heh. I still have old AOL install FLOPPIES somewhere in my big box o' floppies.

I was subscribed to like five or six computer magazines, every month I'd get a windfall of floppy disks.

Anyone else have that 'cool' AOL CD tin?

[teh_blumchenkinder]

Heh. I still have old AOL install FLOPPIES somewhere in my big box o' floppies.

I was subscribed to like five or six computer magazines, every month I'd get a windfall of floppy disks.

Anyone else have that 'cool' AOL CD tin?

I barely remember those floppies! My dad probably still has a few AOL tins, hanging about like dead flies... we've never used AOL. I think he kept them for garage stuff, the same way Opa kept ciggie tins.

[EricKei]

Yes, these are from the days that AOL was corrupting OSs and Bonzai Buddy was corrupting AOL.

BB "corrupting" AOL? Isn't that kinda like heating up hell?

[underemployeed]

BB "corrupting" AOL? Isn't that kinda like heating up hell?

herpes and syphilis

[TowelKing]

Oh god. BB. What about Kazaa? That was right up there with BB.

[draggar]

OH god, Kazaa. WHen I did support if someone mentioned AOL, BB, or Kazaa I told them to uninstall it, see if they still have the issue, and then call us back if they did.

[EricKei]

You can never truly "get rid" of AOL. It's like Adobe or Norton. Unless you REALLY know what you're doing -- or you just take no chances and nuke the site hard drive from orbit -- There will always be some remnant, somewhere. I found this out the hard way one time, when I reinstalled a later version of AOL on a comp that had uninstalled it AND deleted its folders years before. As soon as I got to the section where it asked for the owner's name/ID info, etc, it was already pre-filled, accurately o_O

[Zaiida]

Ripnet.

Location-wise, Eastern Ontario, near the Capital.

The equipment costs were a one-off to install the DSL antenna and wire the house.

As for the fees, well, it seems that both Bell and Rogers are squeezing on the smaller ISPs to try to get a larger market share. Yay. And I'm not paying 1500$ for Sat, Or 15,000$ for cable, just for the install. (we checked; this ISP is the ~cheapest~ in the area.)

Dear God. I'm in the middle of nowhere and I get 50gig + landline rental for 80$ per month with my own equipment. I can get more but I'm not a big user, to 100gig is only another 20$.

I'm in rural Australia at least 4-5 hours out from any major city and we just got DSL2 2 years ago but they are with Satans' Tatas* so I'm with another mob. Even my previous provider gave us 2gig + landline for 100$ per month four years back before the Government finally upgraded around here.

I still get jealous when I see the city prices for unlimited gigs for 30$ per month, I want to drop the landline but it's going to take another year or so because I will not use ST.

*Dad calls them that because they milk you for all your worth while they... ah... let's leave it at that shall we

[Salted Grump]

Sad fact is that Canada pays some of the highest rates in the world for internet usage. Apparently, having 70% of our landscape being untouched wilderness with bears, wolves, and wildfires makes Providers leery of dropping prices.