AOL E-Mail

Why do people persist in using it?  For professional purposes?

Discuss.

Okay, we have no readers, so this might generate like A comment mocking such people.  But still.  AOL has been something one made fun of for the entire 12 years I’ve used the interthingies.  How do people not know better?

Posted by on 11/03 at 10:37 AM

  1. ask Deb what the lyric is about AOL’ers from the Al Yankovic song.

    Posted by  on  11/03  at  11:18 AM  from 

  2. I’ve had an AOL e-mail address for, what 14-15 years now?  I keep it simply because it is the e-mail address that my entire family knows works for me. 

    AOL e-mail is also IMAP compliant, so I can check it using Outlook or Outlook express and bypass all of AOL’s ads and junk.

    I haven’t had an actual AOL program on my PC since version 4.0 back in the mid 1990’s

    Posted by dpatten2aol.com  on  11/03  at  11:27 AM  from  Vero Beach, FL

  3. Deb you must post a site or the lryics (video or something) of that weired al song LOVE HIM.

    Posted by  on  11/03  at  12:32 PM  from 

  4. Go to Weirdal.com there are a few free songs and video’s on there. White and Nerdy is off his new album and its real good.  Also your pittiful is great.

    Posted by wayne  on  11/03  at  01:52 PM  from  ohio

  5. I can’t think of a good reason to still have it, other than nostalgia—like keeping polyester from the 70s… smile

    Posted by Laughing Wolf  on  11/03  at  04:56 PM  from 

  6. Back in 1999 I bought a new IBM ThinkPad, just three weeks before I was due to move out of state. The ThinkPad came with “X hours free on AOL,” up till then I’d been getting online down at the Public Library. So AOL seemed like a convenient way to get online at home immediately, and stay online with some continuity until I got moved and settled.

    Well, it worked, sort of. Turns out once I moved, I found myself in a locale where an AOL connection was a long long distance call away. Anyhow, I limped along with AOL until, a few weeks after the move, I got set up with the small local ISP.

    When I called AOL to cancel, they actually gave me no argument. The AOL dude: “Wow, you really are out in the sticks!”

    Posted by Paul Burgess  on  11/04  at  08:44 AM  from 

  7. I have to say, as a former boss, it always worried me a little when people sent me resumes from .  Even a Hotmail address trumps AOL.

    Posted by  on  11/06  at  08:44 AM  from  Marietta, GA
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