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Today I learned AOL still exists.
Most people forgot about them shortly after they stopped making free frisbees.
I collected hundreds and glued them to my ceiling to make a disco mirror. It was epic lol
I still have AOL 3.5 inch floppies as mementos.
Also some of us cheap-asses would tape over the write-protect hole and use them as free floppy disks.
Wait till you learn about Netscape
I learned about my first hurricane of 2023 from Netscape 🤨
Yahoo, too, is still out there and pumping out news stories and such.
When I want to check on if something is running off cache or a live connection, I go to yahoo.com.
No one goes to yahoo.com Its never cached.
I ping excite.com for similar reasons. It's dns would not be cached on the local machine.
That’s what MySpace is for.
Yahoo is aol now, isn't it? Or aol is yahoo?
I only know Aol. got sold to "Apollo Global Management" after Verizon media destroyed it.
Edit: Seems like Aol. is under Yahoo