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minus-squarereddig33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up57·11 months agoToday I learned AOL still exists.
minus-squareElleChaise@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up18·11 months agoMost people forgot about them shortly after they stopped making free frisbees.
minus-squareRojoSanIchiban@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·11 months agoI still have AOL 3.5 inch floppies as mementos. Also some of us cheap-asses would tape over the write-protect hole and use them as free floppy disks.
minus-squarecassetti@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up8·11 months agoI collected hundreds and glued them to my ceiling to make a disco mirror. It was epic lol
minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up9·11 months agoWait till you learn about Netscape
minus-squarebingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 months agoI learned about my first hurricane of 2023 from Netscape 🤨
minus-squaredethb0y@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·11 months agoYahoo, too, is still out there and pumping out news stories and such.
minus-squareCase@unilem.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6·11 months agoWhen I want to check on if something is running off cache or a live connection, I go to yahoo.com. No one goes to yahoo.com Its never cached.
minus-squareekjp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoI ping excite.com for similar reasons. It’s dns would not be cached on the local machine.
minus-squarePickTheStick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoYahoo is aol now, isn’t it? Or aol is yahoo?
minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-211 months agoI only know Aol. got sold to “Apollo Global Management” after Verizon media destroyed it. Edit: Seems like Aol. is under Yahoo
Today I learned AOL still exists.
Most people forgot about them shortly after they stopped making free frisbees.
I still have AOL 3.5 inch floppies as mementos.
Also some of us cheap-asses would tape over the write-protect hole and use them as free floppy disks.
I collected hundreds and glued them to my ceiling to make a disco mirror. It was epic lol
Wait till you learn about Netscape
I learned about my first hurricane of 2023 from Netscape 🤨
Yahoo, too, is still out there and pumping out news stories and such.
When I want to check on if something is running off cache or a live connection, I go to yahoo.com.
No one goes to yahoo.com Its never cached.
I ping excite.com for similar reasons. It’s dns would not be cached on the local machine.
That’s what MySpace is for.
Yahoo is aol now, isn’t it? Or aol is yahoo?
I only know Aol. got sold to “Apollo Global Management” after Verizon media destroyed it.
Edit: Seems like Aol. is under Yahoo