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Are those collectible yet?
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Evitzee
·Those AOL discs were distributed by the millions, I remember getting them in my mailbox once or twice a week for years.
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sheepdoll
·I really need to write this one up.
Better when they relate to watches.
Not only did I get this to play on the powerbook G3; I also got the watch it refers to.
Better when they relate to watches.
Not only did I get this to play on the powerbook G3; I also got the watch it refers to.
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Aroxx
·Used to have like a hundred of the AOL ones. They make decent frisbees.
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Syrte
·I really need to write this one up.
Better when they relate to watches.
Not only did I get this to play on the powerbook G3; I also got the watch it refers to.
I don’t even remember the gazillion AOL cds…. I wonder how may survive though 😁
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sheepdoll
·Still trying to see if I can extract the jPeg images. They are in some sort of early format --not the standard JFIF containers now used. The video on the CD was quciktime. Low res. Eventually I want to write this watch up proper. I keep getting lost in all the technical lacunae. Most of which is probably of limited interest.
I still have a few discarded CDs. There are a few AOL ones in there. At one time it was popular to make clocks dials out of them.
I wanted to cut them up and make a dress like the dragon scale dress in the Camelot film. CDs are hard to cut without shattering. So much for using them to make watch dials.
I still have a few discarded CDs. There are a few AOL ones in there. At one time it was popular to make clocks dials out of them.
I wanted to cut them up and make a dress like the dragon scale dress in the Camelot film. CDs are hard to cut without shattering. So much for using them to make watch dials.
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Perrier
·I used to work for America Online.
I remember they gave me an award for something, but spelt my name incorrectly on the trophy...
It's a shame the AOL service folded. It was genuinely child friendly, so you could turn off the "real internet" aspect of AOL, and let your kids use the AOL service only.
I remember they gave me an award for something, but spelt my name incorrectly on the trophy...
It's a shame the AOL service folded. It was genuinely child friendly, so you could turn off the "real internet" aspect of AOL, and let your kids use the AOL service only.
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Syrte
·And to think Time Warner was supposedly doomed to die or become irrelevant if it did not merge… 350 billion dollars….where has that money all gone? (rhetorical question: of course we can use google and find out.)
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Braindrain
·The heady days of 2023.... err.... late 1990s....
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Syrte
·The heady days of 2023.... err.... late 1990s....
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impalla62ss
·I used to love it when they would send out the AOL floppy disks. We would cut a notch out of the side and get free double sided disks. Early Eighties.
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JwRosenthal
·Let’s just say « turn of the century » 😜
not this
Ugh.
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JwRosenthal
·And as for the AOL CD’s, we would hang them from fruit trees to keep the birds away.
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rcs914
·One of the first AOL call centers was in Tucson, and they gave pre-IPO stock options to their hourly call center employees. If I recall correctly something like 13 people became millionaires from that.
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Braindrain
·Don't forget the Dellionaires.
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