This site sets a record!

[Chowlett]

Originally posted by King of Rasslin
You guys should seriously try Netzero then. AOL doesn't have an ad banner covering half of your screen, with most of the bandwidth devoted to it.

Now this is an interesting tactic. "Look, I can demonstrate an ISP that's more annoying than AOL! Therefore, ipso facto, AOL must be good!"

[King of Rasslin]

Yeah, well everyone knows that cable or DSL is better than 56k but that doesn't mean I can use it. Moving up to AOL from Netzero is like moving from 56k to DSL. I bet none you you have even used Netzero or AOL. I guess people hate the big corporations. If they don't take up commercial space, some other company will. I think people don't like their annoying ads or their CDs they mail you. As an ISP they are top notch.

[klesh]

I smell an AOL-Time-Warner Bros exec.

[Seeker]

You live in Georgia, how can you call that REAL country?

In Canada we still have real country, places that are just blank on the map, you've got to fly in cause there ain't any roads, and the lakes don't have names.

[DrFell]

Originally posted by King of Rasslin
I bet none you you have even used Netzero or AOL.

I used to use AOL before they stung me with a 500 quid bill for 2 months internet usage. At that time (2 years ago) I had the same 56k modem I have today, but of course AOL didn't even support 56k modems so I was forced down to 34k speeds. After the enourmous overpricing fiasco we've moved onto 3 other ISPs, 2 of them run by small companies, and each was far far better and far less costly (plus in my experience IE is a far better browser than the **** AOL supply you with).

[King of Rasslin]

AMERICA is better than canada


got it?

[Sarxis]

Originally posted by King of Rasslin
I bet none you you have even used Netzero or AOL.

I used AOL before I got my cable.

Never again!

[JohnT]

God, did AOL clone Rassler from the same cells that MS used to create Asher?

[Lodi]

I used AOL years ago and it was the worst experience I have ever had with an isp.

[Skanky Burns]

/me shakes head in wonder, that someone actually thinks AOL is good...

[Felch]

I used to use AOL before they stung me with a 500 quid bill for 2 months internet usage.

Okay, a quid is a pound? And what the hell were they charging you that much for?

[DrFell]

2.95 an hour just to be connected to the internet... not including phone bills...

[mindseye]

AOL started the internet craze.

Really! And here I was, thinking it was Mosaic!

King of Rasslin, when did you start using the Internet?

- mindseye, who remembers the text-based days

[- Groucho -]

AOL is a good source of coasters (I have a dozen different "flavours" of the v.5.0 coasters - my geek friends love 'em and my wife makes me hide them when anyone else is over) but not much else.

Rasslin, once you get to a college dorm and start using a pure, unadulterated connection to the net you'll look back on this thread with the same kind of nausea you'll feel when thinking of the birds and bees speech your dad gave you.

[King of Rasslin]

And what kind of college do you think I will be going to?

You either have an extremely easy but very cheap college that won't even have internet access or an expensive college where you have to study all the time anyway. If you spend all of your time playing games, you will fail. In the easy college, they won't bother to spend money on internet access because they know their students are going to be failures in the job market.