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Remember When AOL Wrote a How-to Internet Book?
If you are of a certain age, you remember AOL internet. It was, for a brief period in the late ’90s and early aughts, a popular monthly subscription service that allowed you to get online via a noisy dial-up connection. The company first spread its seed with the help of free-trial CDs that you could pop into your computer for a test drive. And if you paid a monthly fee, you were inducted into the AOL universe with an email address, an Instant Messenger account, and the ability to ask someone’s a/s/l in any shady chat room you wanted.
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Those were the days, I think they burned at least a billion of those CDs.
Sweet memories of 2400 baud dial-up and cops in chat rooms pretending to be 14 year old girls looking for older men.