Anyone here who's old enough to remember the free AOL trial discs...

[aRTie02150]

That's what alts remind me of. Some broken ass nigga who can't be bothered to pay $20 for AOL so they need a new account every month.

Hope you all have a great weekend.

 

[Carl Winslow]

lol yea; I was thinking about those the other day.

I miss AIM chat.

 

[not that Jack Horner]

That's what alts remind me of. Some broken ass nigga who can't be bothered to pay $20 for AOL so they need a new account every month.

Hope you all have a great weekend.

baby boy

 

[Turk February]

I never understood what was in them. Like. You can't get internet on a CD. And if you already had internet you could download AIM and stuff. my question is. What the fuck was America Online.

 

[aRTie02150]

I never understood what was in them. Like. You can't get internet on a CD. And if you already had internet you could download AIM and stuff. my question is. What the fuck was America Online.

They didn't tell you?

 

[BraunsGhost]

I used the Netzero freebies. Also, K-mart had a disc that would log you into the web so you could sign up. It would give you 30mins before kicking you off. So, every 30 mins I would just have to reboot the disc

 

[aRTie02150]

lol yea; I was thinking about those the other day.

I miss AIM chat.

I miss the chatrooms. Had a blast in them.

 

[Meownaw]

Remember demo discs? Won't see them no more.

 

[DeadWithoutMyDavid]

Yeah but $20 in 1996 was like ten thousand dollars. Anyway we called them coasters but it turned out they actually aren't good at absorbing condensation.

 

[WifeStoreWill]

I never understood what was in them. Like. You can't get internet on a CD. And if you already had internet you could download AIM and stuff. my question is. What the fuck was America Online.

People didn’t have internet at their house so they had no way to download the software ahead of time to set it up unless they were super nerds who knew how to dial into a BBS or something. They just had computers with modems, so the disks had the software on them that let you connect. Also, it took 10 minutes to download 1 Sandra bullock fake nude back then so it made sense to not have people download shit for hours.

AOL was an internet service provider who had like their own private site with an easy to use dashboard for people who didn’t know what they were doing. So you’d click the button for news or sports or whatever and could see what was going on. And they had chat rooms.

 

[Meownaw]

I remember being bummed out that my parents got real internet instead of AOL because I was never able to use the keywords that advertisements around that time would use. What a retard I was (and still am).

 

[PickleRickle]

That's what alts remind me of. Some broken ass nigga who can't be bothered to pay $20 for AOL so they need a new account every month.

Hope you all have a great weekend.

Memories of this shit pops into my head on occasion. I miss the computer games that came in cereal boxes. Snagging a free copy of roller coaster tycoon or Clue would pretty mint. The cereal jews would never do that these days.

 

[Meownaw]

Memories of this shit pops into my head on occasion. I miss the computer games that came in cereal boxes. Snagging a free copy of roller coaster tycoon or Clue would pretty mint. The cereal jews would never do that these days.

They even made games just for cereal boxes. Chex Quest and the Crunch berries game.

 

[Lamont & Tonelli]

They even made games just for cereal boxes. Chex Quest and the Crunch berries game.

Missed the Crunch berries game, but Chex Quest was way better than it had any right to be.

 

[Monk]

We used to drive around in my friend John's shitty red Cavalier and take as many as we could. Two of us would go into places like Blockbuster where they'd have a small display of them sitting on the counter. One would distract the person at the counter and the other would just grab the whole fucking display and walk out. For an entire summer, one of our primary pastimes was taking AOL CDs. The trunk of my buddy's Cavalier was filled with literally thousands of them by the time we stopped. The most we ever did with them was fuck with other friends by putting them all over their car or frisbee them out the window as we drove around.

 

[guest]

They were iconic af and EVERYWHERE. You would see the white little envelope thingy it came in strewn everywhere in the street...IMO they made CDs cheap.

Before AOL free trial CDs...CDs were a big deal, if you had class u had ur music CD collection displayed in ur living room etc.

After AOL free trial discs... CDs became cheap disposable seeming items.

 

[bantadant]

I found one at my parent's house a few weeks ago. Would have taken it but I don't know what good it is these days

 

[Meownaw]

I found one at my parent's house a few weeks ago. Would have taken it but I don't know what good it is these days

Makes a nice coaster if you don't mind a hole at the bottom.

 

[guest]

Missed the Crunch berries game, but Chex Quest was way better than it had any right to be.

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.myabandonware.com/game/chex-quest-2e4/play-2e4[/URL]

 

[PeteRose]

AOL was before its time. The internet is going back behind the paywall. I will gladly pay $30-40 a month to not associate with people like patty and mm schill