Now, in the age of broadband, AOL is mainly a portal, similar to Yahoo or MSN, offering original web-based content in addition to e-mail, Xdrive onlne storage, and AOL Instant Messenger. In those early days of dial-up access, AOL was a friendly, graphics-heavy BBS with its own walled garden of proprietary content "channels" and e-mail system that offered access to the "rest" of the Internet to its users. So I just used a piece of tape over the write-protect notch and had an endless supply of free floppy disks.īut that was then this is now. ![]() AOL was for n00bs, people afraid of telnet and gopher and pine. Not me, though I used the real Internet via a shell account at Purdue University. In the early-to-mid 90s, as far as most people were concerned, AOL was the Internet. It has been many years since since I have seen those ubiquitous floppy disks that had proprietary access software and gave a free one month trial to America Online.
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