The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Gabe1]

I use NetScape still!!!

Would you believe me if I said I never heard of that option?

 

[Andrew C]

So I went to see a doctor for a check-up, for like the first time in 10 years. My blood work came back and I am NOT dying. Wooo for me!!!

 

[Andrew C]

Would you believe me if I said I never heard of that option?

Yep I would, considering they have not been a player since the 90's.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Ha! He, at our age needs to follow my golden rule. Do whatever my daughter tells me to do.

That's my mom's rule. Unfortunately, my dad, with everything, has to decide that it was his idea, and then it becomes a really good idea of his.

I should have just put Chrome on there a LONG time ago and let him eventually figure it out...

He still tells me that I must've screwed up his IE to force him over to Chrome. Again...

 

[FutureCEO]

It's amazing when you think about how when you were on the internet in the 90s with AOL, you blocked the phone line.

 

[Andrew C]

It's amazing when you think about how when you were on the internet in the 90s with AOL, you blocked the phone line.

bahaha. Sister used to yell at me to get off the internet because she was expecting a call.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

It's amazing when you think about how when you were on the internet in the 90s with AOL, you blocked the phone line.

We had AOL until 2009...

 

[Gabe1]

It's amazing when you think about how when you were on the internet in the 90s with AOL, you blocked the phone line.

Would you believe I added a second land line because of aol dial up? Times they did change.

 

[Gabe1]

We had AOL until 2009...

Wow! That was above and beyond loyalty.

 

[Gabe1]

bahaha. Sister used to yell at me to get off the internet because she was expecting a call.

I run a business out of my home, I had to have a second land line. Someone was always hooked up to aol around here and we had splitters so multiple people could aol at the same time.

 

[Andrew C]

We had AOL until 2009...

We started with Prodigy a long long time ago when we had a 14.4k modem.

Then when the internet and surfing the web got more advanced we used MSN...The Microsoft Network, with a 56K modem. Good lord it was horrible and always had connection issues.

Then we switched to MindSpring at one point which was amazing. MindSpring eventually got bought (or bought) EarthLink.

One day, I asked my dad if we could bump up to a ISDN connection that would take us from 56k to 128k. He said he would look into to. Instead, we went to a full fledged cable modem from Time Warner.

There you do...my early life internet history. In case you remotely cared.

 

[Gabe1]

That's my mom's rule. Unfortunately, my dad, with everything, has to decide that it was his idea, and then it becomes a really good idea of his.

I should have just put Chrome on there a LONG time ago and let him eventually figure it out...

He still tells me that I must've screwed up his IE to force him over to Chrome. Again...

Oh my. My sister is an attorney. She never ever admits someone else could have been right.

 

[englanddg]

Fun fact...AOL still has 2.4 million subscribers. Many of which have their own broadband, but still use AOL to "connect"...

About 150 million a year in profit (not revenue) from it, or something like that.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Wow! That was above and beyond loyalty.

Actually, it was more avoidance of going to Comcast. We refused to spend any more money with them than we absolutely had to. Plus it was $10 per month, which my dad liked.

When we got the desktop and my first laptop, Verizon had come into our area, and my mom insisted that they would not be putting AOL on the new computers. We have had Verizon ever since. I honestly think he knew that our internet was terrible and was going to switch whether or not Mom approved. We are now extremely spoiled

Between the internet and the Windows ME, I ended up doing homework at the library after school in middle school frequently.

EDIT: My parents still share an Aol email account. I originally had AOL, but after it twice sent out spam to all of my contacts, I switched to Gmail and have never looked back

 

[Gabe1]

We started with Prodigy a long long time ago when we had a 14.4k modem.

Then when the internet and surfing the web got more advanced we used MSN...The Microsoft Network, with a 56K modem. Good lord it was horrible and always had connection issues.

Then we switched to MindSpring at one point which was amazing. MindSpring eventually got bought (or bought) EarthLink.

One day, I asked my dad if we could bump up to a ISDN connection that would take us from 56k to 128k. He said he would look into to. Instead, we went to a full fledged cable modem from Time Warner.

There you do...my early life internet history. In case you remotely cared.

So many I never heard of. Me, Aol, Comcast Uverse.

 

[englanddg]

That's my mom's rule. Unfortunately, my dad, with everything, has to decide that it was his idea, and then it becomes a really good idea of his.

I should have just put Chrome on there a LONG time ago and let him eventually figure it out...

He still tells me that I must've screwed up his IE to force him over to Chrome. Again...

Microsoft screwed up his IE, not you.

Trust me, he's not the only one having troubles. Trust me...

I'll be bald before Windows 10 comes out at this rate...

 

[Gabe1]

Fun fact...AOL still has 2.4 million subscribers. Many of which have their own broadband, but still use AOL to "connect"...

About 150 million a year in profit (not revenue) from it, or something like that.

I still have an aol email so I guess that makes me still a subscriber. I use it solely for businesses that request my email that I have no intention to email correspond with. Junk emails.

 

[FutureCEO]

One Direction is on the talk show I'm watching...thank god there is no female fans in the audience

 

[Gabe1]

Christmas Vacation is on...

Where ya going?

 

[Clamman73]

I use NetScape still!!!

My mid 90s browser. Really liked it just for that animation in the logo while waiting for a web page to load.