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I was a beta tester for AOL, so they’d send me all of those dumb discs. None of the actual software ever changed or improved. All they did was change the graphics around the guts of it. Their whole strategy was essentially fooling people via appearances. I liked collecting the discs though.
My first internet before AOL was Prodigy. I was in a DOS terminal when I was a kid.
Remember when AOL was a closed system? It only connected with other AOL stuff, so the biggest advantage of Prodigy was you could actually access the web.
And CompuServe!
My college friends and I would take every AOL disk from every store we went to and throw them at eachother in the mall parking lot.
We would microwave them for a few seconds to see "the quickening"
Do you remember the news stories of "stand aside internet, here comes the world wide web" .... And they were literally the same thing?