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    Image of siegeljoseph001 siegeljoseph001
    11/19/09

    In reply to AOL's Slow Death Continues: A Third of Staff Must Go
    wow, 300 mile saved from 2500 employees, that calculated to avg salary of $120k including benefits, not bad!
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    Image of Danny Allen Danny Allen
    11/20/09

    @siegeljoseph001: It's less than that, the extra comes from things like vacation pay, employee benefit payouts, etc.
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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 greymistcube greymistcube
    11/19/09

    In reply to AOL's Slow Death Continues: A Third of Staff Must Go
    i will say this again and again. aol should've been dead long time ago. aim is the worst messenger program out there. just because so many people use it, doesn't mean it's good.
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    Image of Don Nguyen Don Nguyen
    11/19/09

    @saych: that's precisely what makes it good.
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    Image of freediverdude freediverdude
    11/19/09

    In reply to AOL's Slow Death Continues: A Third of Staff Must Go
    I have a 62 year old landlord who STILL uses the full AOL software, with the embedded Internet Explorer and everything. It's very sad. I keep trying to wean him off of it, but it's a battle.
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    Image of the_amazing_doug the_amazing_doug
    11/19/09

    In reply to AOL's Slow Death Continues: A Third of Staff Must Go
    first geocities, then aol... wow. 2009 is the death of all things 1999.
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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 relyk5 relyk5
    11/19/09

    In reply to AOL's Slow Death Continues: A Third of Staff Must Go
    WHY WON'T YOU DIE?!?!
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    Image of RicketyCricket RicketyCricket
    11/19/09

    In reply to AOL's Slow Death Continues: A Third of Staff Must Go
    When I think of AOL, I think of their damn CDs (great for chucking at walls) and that lovely modem sound . . .

    EEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRphrshgfls...!!!!
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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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