AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day
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I worked there from 2002-2005. Was 2 cubicles down from the guy responsible for sending out the “free trial!” CDs. Fun times
I still have one, still in the cellophane. I use it as a coaster.
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Yeah. Increasingly reliable satellite internet really killed their bottom line over the last few years.
Any alternatives to the Starlink?
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"Could of" and similar phonetic replacements making no sense whatsoever irritate me more.
Here at least the logic is arbitrary, "Anna's apartment" and "school's leadership" vs "Anna's waiting" and "school's empty", but "its tail" vs "it's cold".
OK, I'm not a native speaker as it may be clear.
Fwiw, the logic is, "its" isn't quite the equivalent of "Anna's" or "school's."
Rather it's the equivalent of "his," "hers," and "theirs." Also "mine" but that's just irregular af. In other words, possessive pronouns don't take an apostrophe while possessive nouns do.
It's not a LOT of logic, a pretty shaky ladder, but there it is. 0
(Oh, and for both nouns and pronouns, position in the sentence makes a difference whether to use a contraction at all, or go with the separate "is." But that's a horse of a different color!)
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That's not what I wanted, hew-man!
I thought we all had a collective and unsaid agreement not to talk about this one
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FFS will people ever use "it's" and "its" correctly ?
Yeah its so annoying when someone uses the wrong one
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I worked there from 2002-2005. Was 2 cubicles down from the guy responsible for sending out the “free trial!” CDs. Fun times
Do you remember what you guys were using to burn millions of CDs at the time? Genuinely curious how it was done at that scale, as I think it was one of the biggest CD campaigns.
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Do you remember what you guys were using to burn millions of CDs at the time? Genuinely curious how it was done at that scale, as I think it was one of the biggest CD campaigns.
No idea. He clicked a button, they went out. I’m sure there was a big factory in China. Anytime new registrations were down for the month, send out another batch.
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Goodbye!
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Do you remember what you guys were using to burn millions of CDs at the time? Genuinely curious how it was done at that scale, as I think it was one of the biggest CD campaigns.
At that scale discs are stamped, not individually burned. Same as how music CDs and DVDs were made.
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"Could of" and similar phonetic replacements making no sense whatsoever irritate me more.
Here at least the logic is arbitrary, "Anna's apartment" and "school's leadership" vs "Anna's waiting" and "school's empty", but "its tail" vs "it's cold".
OK, I'm not a native speaker as it may be clear.
The one that kills me is the positive use of "anymore," which I've come to learn is colloquial to Northern Ireland and the midwest US, but good lord it just doesn't sound right when people say stuff like "everybody's cool anymore" instead of "everybody's cool now." For some reason I felt like it was becoming more common but now I'm thinking it might just be my exposure to midwest.social.
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FFS will people ever use "it's" and "its" correctly ?
Look, just because your one of the people who understands it, doesn’t mean their one of the ones who do.
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Rip my pcmcia modem card
Telephony still exists! It's still good, it's still good!
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Any alternatives to the Starlink?
The other satellite players (Hughesnet, Viasat), the fixed 5G boxes (although places sufficiently rural to seriously consider dialup may not have 5G), probably some smaller boutique dialup ISPs.
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Look, just because your one of the people who understands it, doesn’t mean their one of the ones who do.
I would of got it right
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I thought we all had a collective and unsaid agreement not to talk about this one
Statute of limitations ran out.
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The other satellite players (Hughesnet, Viasat), the fixed 5G boxes (although places sufficiently rural to seriously consider dialup may not have 5G), probably some smaller boutique dialup ISPs.
I read months ago that Amazon was stepping into the game but I haven't heard anything since then.
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I would of got it right
wood have
Sigh
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Wow 34 Years of Dialup. Who still uses dial up? I guess that naive of me and is coming from a place of privelege.
But still dial up??!
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Wow 34 Years of Dialup. Who still uses dial up? I guess that naive of me and is coming from a place of privelege.
But still dial up??!
If you live in a rural area, it seems plausible
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Fitting that it's ending in (eternal) September.
