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I'm surprised they haven't tanked already.
Calif Bill wrote:
"Mike" wrote in message ... wrote in message ... On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:54:38 -0500, BAR wrote: Why did anyone ever pay for AOL? There was a time when it was only Prodigy and AOL, before there really was an internet, from the consumer standpoint. It was all proprietary software and captive content. Other than that you just had local BBS services. If you traveled you wanted something with national coverage. It still is about the most stable ISP. The rest came and went with too much frequency to actually give anyone your Email address and have it be useful a year later. Even now I can still use my 15 year old AOL address but my Mediaone address is dead, as is the successor Roadrunner (ended up Comcast), Sprint then Earthlink, ended up Embarq. and a half dozen other places that I had accounts with. (RIP) The software stopped being stable when they incorporated Internet Explorer as the browser and W/9x. Prior to that it was rock solid. I used to use the W/3.1 version to test communication on machines that had suspected software problems since it didn't have to be "installed" and it would run straight from a diskette. Before Prodigy and AOL there was Compuserve and GEnie. Same stuff, just earlier. --Mike Actually there was ARPA net for a lot of us. Which host were you? |
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