I think I still have a couple in my garage with the settings printed on a piece of paper I had taped to them. What a pain. No more cable select for us!
Oh man. In 1997 a sweet looking car Called a Plymouth Prowler came out and little tween me made my aim name, email, and eventually ebay name Prowler1234 (numbers changed).
I never thought about how totally sketch it was to be on aim and in forums with the screen name Prowler. Lol
Correct. Any disks that the company didn’t want erased, like marketing disks, didn’t have the slide tab. Hence the op mentioning they used tape instead.
The main thing I remember about AOL way back when is that you only got a certain amount of hours to use it per month and if you went over they started charging extra
And if your local number was busy and you dialed another, it could cost a metric shitload of money, because long-distance was apparently transmitted on the finest golden threads honed by fifth-generation artisans.
One of the weirdest generational gaps we almost never talk about is how we got to ‘of course you can talk to anyone anytime’ immediately after decades of ‘hey you wanna meet up for a burger?’ costing more than the burger.
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