I was just showing my partner that I still have a few AOL CDs in the metal tins! That was closer to the end times for them (8000 HOURS FREE!!!).
OMG yesssss I was a subscriber and STILL received several. 🤬
McKenna and Lieberman scratch the CDs so they can't be sent out again…
Antithetical to their "stop polluting" message. Still, Me-20-years-ago would have signed up.
Back in the day, I was a little shit and would help myself to all of the AOL CDs packaged with the free computing periodicals at the library. Let’s just say that there are still more than a few unopened packages of AOL CDs at my parent’s house 20+ years on…
For a friend and I at the time, they made excellent disposable frisbees!
Websites, software, games, fads, memes, or any general happenings that used to occur or had originated on computers 20+ years ago.
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Some Cool Links
Classic Websites: Random Page / Search Engine
cool-retro-term: terminal emulator mimicing old cathode displays
Neocities: webhost homage to Geocities
Webamp / Webamp Desktop / Skin Library: cross-platform re-implementation of Winamp 2.9