End of AOL?

[Acid X]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,88072,00.html

Read.

 

[Solid Fro]

I watched that earlier today. Time Waner lost something like 6 billion dollars and AOL is worth 30 million. The best thing to do is to sell off AOL, but if no one picks up the tab...

{s goodbye

 

[GilesGuthrie]

There are too many subscribers for it just to disappear. Those subscibers have value, and my guess is that some other ISP - perhaps UUNET - would pick them up.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

There are too many subscribers for it just to disappear. Those subscibers have value, and my guess is that some other ISP - perhaps UUNET - would pick them up.

 

[viperman]

a double post, by Giles. Whats the world coming to?!

 

[Joey]

Jesus hath shone his merciful light upon us all.
Few things could make me happier than to see AOL sold off to a company other than TW. A company that isn't so darn rich that it actually has to listen to waht its customers ask of it.

 

[1X83Z]

Originally posted by viperman
a double post, by Giles. Whats the world coming to?!

Yeah, well - this thread still has zero replies so it's okay.

One thing I've noticed as an AOL user is that users don't really mind the service whereas non-users complain bitterly fairly often. Just shut up...

 

[mayorbill11]

AOL/Time-Warner owns winamp now, I hope they don't start charging money for it again.

 

[viperman]

Originally posted by M5Power
Yeah, well - this thread still has zero replies so it's okay.

One thing I've noticed as an AOL user is that users don't really mind the service whereas non-users complain bitterly fairly often. Just shut up...

I olny complain when the dsl is as slow as 56k.

 

[IDAFC21]

Originally posted by M5Power
Yeah, well - this thread still has zero replies so it's okay.

One thing I've noticed as an AOL user is that users don't really mind the service whereas non-users complain bitterly fairly often. Just shut up...

I complained about aol's service when I was a user....it was and still is total crap. Yeah its come a long way, but when you keep getting WAOL errors and get booted off every 10 minutes a new set of smilies and a different background dont really make up for that.

 

[Ethix101]

I used AOL from I think v2.0-v6.0 or 7.0, I can't remember...anyway the only problems I ever really had with it was when I wanted to either play a game online or if I wanted to download something....I'd lose off all the time and it got really annoying, but if all you're doing is checking e-mail and a few websites here and there, AOL is fine.

 

[Matrixhasu77]

Um, that link points to some article about the situation in CA, not about AOL. I've used AOL since Version 3 but never used 6 or 7. Aol 5 was the worst though, it crashed all the time.

 

[Ghost C]

5.0 was the best version they ever made. If I could find any of my old 5.0 discs, I'd be using it right now. But I am using 6.0, so all is not lost.

And AOL isn't really my ISP, I have localized cable, but keep AOL because it's easier than getting an e-mail account somewhere else and less annoying than AIM.

 

[milefile]

I used AOL for three months becasue it came free with my Gateway computer. What a pain. I didn't like it. ISP's should simply connect you. THe rest is up to you. AOL holds the hands of computer dummies... except Doug.

They also continued to bill me after I canceled and sent me all these mean letters. I still ended up having to pay for a month I didn't use or even want but it was easier than fighting with a collection agency.

 

[Max Powers]

Hopefully nothing would happen to AOL Instant Messanger.

 

[Acid X]

It'd probably just migrate along with AOL to the new owner.

 

[Rat Bastid]

I see no point in paying AOL when I have everything I need from Time-Warner Cable, Yahoo or MSN. AIM is free!

 

[Joey]

I see no point in not running a bleep-ing cable out here to my neighborhood so I don't have to live with AOL anymore. Why do I hate it? The browser is slow. Why is it slow? The connection is weak.

19.2kbps...?