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    AOL's Slow Death Continues: A Third of Staff Must Go

    Remainders - Things We Didn't Post

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    Image of safil safil
    11/19/09

    In reply to AOL's Slow Death Continues: A Third of Staff Must Go
    aol, what old people who still have rotary phones get conned into using "to connect to ur family and see them,
    its the future". except when u finally go over their house to visit, ur so glad ur shithole of a connection is back home waiting for u and u get to leave... netzero, im talking to u too...

    and to think, they made a movie called, "You got mail" cause aol was so it in 1998, blah... that's what u get for putting tom hanks and meg ryan 2gether and making us like it. rant it is.
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    Image of valkilmerisawful valkilmerisawful
    11/19/09

    In reply to AOL's Slow Death Continues: A Third of Staff Must Go
    I wish AOL was still popular. As a matter of fact, I am going to dig up an old AOL 3.0 cd and install the heck out of it and then hit up the chat rooms, a/s/l?, install some progz, and IM bomb my friends.
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    Image of En0s1 En0s1
    11/19/09

    @valkilmerisawful: You have brought back a million horrid teenage memories. Thank you.
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    Image of FightingChance FightingChance
    11/19/09

    @valkilmerisawful: Do they still have those wav files that crackle when you log off?
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    Image of valkilmerisawful valkilmerisawful
    11/19/09

    @En0s1: You know what is NOT a horrid memory? Slingo. Yessssss ohhh yesss my friend. Tell me you didn't play 6 million games of Slingo during your AOL affair. That game is still alive and kickin' too. I play it from time to time, for the good memories :)

    @FightingChance: WAV files were where it was at. I remember when it was cool to download a 12 second clip of a 2Pac song in 25 minutes. We thought we had everything.

    #tips
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    Image of En0s1 En0s1
    11/19/09

    @valkilmerisawful: DO I REMEMBER SLINGO!?
    Oh how I tied up phone lines for hours. PS if my girlfriend's niece were to read this she'd laugh and call me old.

    #tips
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    Image of valkilmerisawful valkilmerisawful
    11/19/09

    @En0s1: Well clearly she has never been saved by Cupid thwarting the DD!
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    Image of stifflittlefinger stifflittlefinger
    11/19/09

    In reply to AOL's Slow Death Continues: A Third of Staff Must Go
    Are they still alive? I used to live in Brazil when they tried to go there. It's a long story, but their business strategy was quite hilarious.

    They ended up getting sued by a pop band because a company printed those AOL cds but they mixed up the content. So you would get a free AOL cd but when you put it in the computer, there was music from an album which was yet to be released.

    It was great.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/19/09

    In reply to AOL's Slow Death Continues: A Third of Staff Must Go
    I used AOL for a time, many, many years ago. I can still remember the desperation in the customer support representative's voice they day I called up to cancel my service. I gave him a good five minutes to pour his heart into the pitch of a lifetime, offering me whatever he was capable of in order to get me to stay.

    Looking back I guess that was kind of cruel, like taunting a dog with a treat and then not giving it to him...
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    Image of Gordonium Gordonium
    11/19/09

    In reply to AOL's Slow Death Continues: A Third of Staff Must Go
    AOL? How twentieth century...
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/19/09

    In reply to AOL's Slow Death Continues: A Third of Staff Must Go
    How much money have they saved by no longer peppering mailboxes across the country with their CD's?
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    Image of pdditty pdditty
    11/19/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: That question should've been asked 10 years ago
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    11/19/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: I bet that's the first department to go. The "Coaster Division."
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/19/09

    @pdditty: 10 years ago they were still mailing out floppy disks..
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    11/19/09

    In reply to AOL's Slow Death Continues: A Third of Staff Must Go
    wonder if anyone wants ICQ.. it's fortunes have declined since MSN, Yahoo, Skype have been in constant Development and ICQ's been left to rot...
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    Image of met2art met2art
    11/19/09

    In reply to AOL's Slow Death Continues: A Third of Staff Must Go
    "You've got fail!"
    "Goodbye!"
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    10/23/09

    In reply to Remainders - Things We Didn't Post
    AOL? Don't you mean AOHell! *snort* *snicker* #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of G-Ram G-Ram
    10/20/09

    In reply to Let's Look At Credit Score Rankings by Email Domains
    Jesus Google, you're top 3 in Email... maybe you can give us fucking push now? The lowest one on the damn chart offers one of the most superior features that you continue to lack. #creditscores
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    Image of Barclay Hygaard Barclay Hygaard
    10/22/09

    @G-Ram: I've had push from gmail for about 3 months now...
    [googlemobile.blogspot.com]
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    G-Ram promoted this comment Edited by Barclay Hygaard at 10/22/09 3:46 AM Barclay Hygaard was starred Barclay Hygaard was unstarred
    Image of G-Ram G-Ram
    10/22/09

    @Barclay Hygaard: Thanks for that link. I looked into it, but it requires you to enter it in as MS exchange, which I'm already using for my business email.

    Why can't they simply enable push for all users the way Yahoo does? #creditscores
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    10/20/09

    In reply to Let's Look At Credit Score Rankings by Email Domains
    "What's AOL doing anywhere but at the bottom?"

    Who let the riffraff in? Look, just....just give them one of the leftover hamburgers and tell them to get lost! #creditscores
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    Image of Curves Curves
    10/20/09

    In reply to Let's Look At Credit Score Rankings by Email Domains
    I use Yahoo and Hotmail just because they are web based and my credit score is higher than this chart even goes. Once again, I screw up the "norm". #creditscores
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    Image of gemcosta gemcosta
    10/20/09

    @Curves: I fail to understand that logic since GMail is also web based. I've used GMail from the beginning, dumping my hotmail and yahoo accounts. They were just horrible email clients. #creditscores
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    Image of Curves Curves
    10/20/09

    @gemcosta: Just a personal preference since I am anti-google. Too much of a Big Brother feel for me. I have a Gmail account, but rarely use it, and in fact, have it auto forwarded to a yahoo account. #creditscores
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    Image of AndrosZ AndrosZ
    10/20/09

    @Curves: I think you're confusing "successful" with "Big Brother". I'm guessing you don't use IE either. #creditscores
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    Image of pz pz
    10/20/09

    @Curves: If you use the internet, you're using Google. Practically every single page you go, anywhere (including this one), is using their Analytics package.

    Embrace the Goog, come on. :P #creditscores
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    Image of Curves Curves
    10/20/09

    @AndrosZ: I only use IE when forced, I prefer Firefox for purely functional reasons. #creditscores
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    Image of phunnyballs phunnyballs
    10/20/09

    In reply to Let's Look At Credit Score Rankings by Email Domains
    Whats the low end of a credit score? I don't know since I dont worry about mine being low (and I dont want to find out the low the hard way), but the commercials on TV say "650-850" but Yahoo's average is below 650... wtf. #creditscores
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    Image of gemcosta gemcosta
    10/20/09

    @phunnyballs: It can go as low as 300, and as high as 900. But most scores are around the 600-700 range these days. If you pay your bills in full every time, have no debt, keep everything in order, you should easily have an 800 or more. #creditscores
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    07/05/09

    In reply to AOL Tries to Extort Bogus Fees From Wall Street Journal Writer
    Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.
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    Image of gzumwalt gzumwalt
    07/04/09

    In reply to AOL Tries to Extort Bogus Fees From Wall Street Journal Writer
    Where's Barak when you really need him? Sigh.
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    Image of FireZingr FireZingr
    07/05/09

    @gzumwalt: He's trying to fix nonexistent global warming by cap and taxing the jobs out of the US and raising my electric bill by $200 a month.
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    Image of infmom infmom
    07/05/09

    @FireZingr: As opposed to the good old laissez-faire capitalists sending all the jobs out of the US and getting melamine from China in return?
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