Goodbye Aol

esuna · March 2005

<div class="IPBDescription">HELLO DSL!</div> AOL is uninstalling, i'm finally feeling better again.

Time to do something illegal with the intarweb!

Thansal · March 2005

Wahooo!

welcome back to the land of normal intraweb!

You do realize that the only real way to get rid of AOL is to summon sometihng nearly as evil as AOL to combat it. One of the Elder Gods should do....

brute_force · March 2005

WELCOME TO INTERNETS!
ENJOY POSSIBLE STAYS
HAVE FUN DONT FEED TROLLS

Welcome back esuna <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' />

Snidely · March 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Thansal @ Mar 1 2005, 06:47 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Wahooo!

welcome back to the land of normal intraweb!

You do realize that the only real way to get rid of AOL is to summon sometihng nearly as evil as AOL to combat it. One of the Elder Gods should do....  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Yeah, really.

My mum once installed AOL on my little sister's computer when our normal internet was down for a while. She didn't have any other discs and my little sis really needed to go online for her work.

I got a call later on when mum tried to uninstall AOL. It completely farked up the computer's internet settings as a "going away" present.

):<

Dubbilex · March 2005

*waves*

Nil_IQ · March 2005

Cleanse your machine with fire to make sure you got all of the AOL-ness.

StormLiong · March 2005

And another one bites the dust for AOL

Soon the mighty empire shall fall!!

Nemesis_Zero · March 2005

Best of luck, es. When I got rid of AOL in 2000, it took me two disc swipes to come clean off it. No idea how its remnants managed to survive the first...

StormLiong · March 2005

Actually did you know that AOL does provide broadband ADSL as well?

Well I do know about US but in the UK they do and they are pretty competitive. But even with high speed net, they still require you to login through their "special" program to access the service.

Supernorn · March 2005

Your computer is tarnished forever. perform an Exorcism!

SLizer · March 2005

Have fun.

CommunistWithAGun · March 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nemesis Zero @ Mar 1 2005, 09:14 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Best of luck, es. When I got rid of AOL in 2000, it took me two disc swipes to come clean off it. No idea how its remnants managed to survive the first...  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Is there some kind of GOL (Germany online) or is it just American online everywhere, even if you aren't american <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /> (Yes this is a serious question <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />)

Nemesis_Zero · March 2005

It's American Online everywhere. Though they have given up on advertising with the full name about four years ago.

TheDestroyer · March 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Cleanse your machine with fire to make sure you got all of the AOL-ness.</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

You do realize that cleansing one's computer completely of AOL is close to impossible?

I have AOL stuff on my computer. It just seems to install itself on everything.

Oh, my mother's computer has both AOL and CompuServe (bought out by AOL, sadly) and the other day, AOL felt that it was important for her computer to has AOL access at all time. So it installed AOL taskbar, which was close to impossible to remove. I don't see why she has AOL, we have a real ISP, as well...

GD mother, not used to Firefox. I think it scares her.

BaconTheory · March 2005

Good for you. I don't see why people even get AOL in the first place. I don't know what their prices are like, but maybe that's it?

Thansal · March 2005

the reason esuna had AOL was b/c his broadband company (BT) screwed him when he moved.

he was ussing a 1 month free disc so as to have SOMETIHNG <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

Narfwak · March 2005

AOL is Skynet. It will destroy us all.

Epidemic · March 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Thansal @ Mar 1 2005, 04:43 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> the reason esuna had AOL was b/c his broadband company (BT) screwed him when he moved.

he was ussing a 1 month free disc so as to have SOMETIHNG <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Poor poor soul <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' />

RobB · March 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nemesis Zero @ Mar 1 2005, 03:14 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Best of luck, es. When I got rid of AOL in 2000, it took me two disc swipes to come clean off it. No idea how its remnants managed to survive the first... </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
AOL is an evil virus summoned by devil's Gates himself... (wow... that wordplay was absolutely not intended O_o").

Do you note that it is in almost every discounter's PC configuration? Like sponsored or something.. don't know how they managed to get that much money for that.

AOL is realy everywhere. As long as there is no local ISP that gives the manufacturer more money to pre-install their software.
*just remembers something*

I had once T(elecom)-Online (German ISP) AND AOL pre installed - that was crazy.

oh, and, welcome back, esu =)

ps- please look at shoutcast.com - since when does AOL have the rights on mp3?
I thought, such a big thing is not patentable? [flaming rant about american courts suppressed]

im_lost · March 2005

AOL is $23.90/month in the US, right? I think the only reason people use it are for the free trial periods (like esuna did) or because they got internet before there were any other companies, and they are afraid to change. The prices might be competitive in other countries though, I don't know.

CommunistWithAGun · March 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nemesis Zero @ Mar 1 2005, 10:20 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> It's American Online everywhere. Though they have given up on advertising with the full name about four years ago.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
I wish there was a german version, I like the german language it sounds angry <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

DragonMech · March 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TheDestroyer @ Mar 1 2005, 09:37 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I have AOL stuff on my computer. It just seems to install itself on everything.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
You're not kidding. An AOL advertisement/program came with my Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NX sound card install disc. -_-

Gwahir · March 2005

you have no idea how many people I've had to talk through repairing the damage done by AOL.

It completely farks the protocol stack.

Goodbye Aol

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