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  1. 09-24-2006, 11:16 PM #1
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    Default Old school ISPs

    Anyone remember using Prodigy and/or Compuserve?


    I wonder what happened to them...
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  2. 09-24-2006, 11:22 PM #2
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    They're still in service, But GAY
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    I had Compuserv, they sucked ass. It took me 45 minutes to cancel my account after I got Comcast.

    Me- I want to cancel my account
    Them- We will leave it on for one month free so you can reconsider
    Me- I dont want a free month
    Them-But you'll lose your email account

    Repeat these sentences for 45 minutes
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    Quote Originally Posted by chrisdavis
    I had Compuserv, they sucked ass. It took me 45 minutes to cancel my account after I got Comcast.

    Me- I want to cancel my account
    Them- We will leave it on for one month free so you can reconsider
    Me- I dont want a free month
    Them-But you'll lose your email account

    Repeat these sentences for 45 minutes



    heheh same here with AOL, They kept giving me extra months, I had aol for a year
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    when netzero/kmarts bluelight was free, i used it as a back up for when a storm came and knocked out my cable

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    Brady. No one asked you for your blue-light comment. Later, QD.
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    lol qd
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    Quote Originally Posted by quickdodgeŽ
    Brady. No one asked you for your blue-light comment. Later, QD.
    sheesh.

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    Which one of those was like a knock off version of AOL? I mean EVERYTHING was the exact same they just had different symbols lol... Anyways, all I've ever used has been AOL, Bellsouth, Comcast, Charter, and for a very short time way back when, I used to use Juno for dial up email lol.
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    LOL bluelight was the shit... i had a crack for it that took the ad banner away LIRL

    haha

    man if u wanna talk old school,, old school AOL was teh shit!

    i remember my little routine:
    open chat:
    new chat:
    Private chat> "mm"

    LOL

    "FATEZERO MM" type "mm" to join...

    i check my email:
    LIRL NBA LIVE 1997 THE NEW SHIT ... (1 of 27)


    download all 27 files on dialup to find out that i saved 30 bux LOL hahaha that shit was 1337 as hell


    i remember shit on 28.8K which was fast as FUCKKK
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    28.8 was the shit until USRobotics released X2 technology
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    Quote Originally Posted by HyPer50
    Which one of those was like a knock off version of AOL? I mean EVERYTHING was the exact same they just had different symbols lol... Anyways, all I've ever used has been AOL, Bellsouth, Comcast, Charter, and for a very short time way back when, I used to use Juno for dial up email lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nemesis
    Anyone remember using Prodigy and/or Compuserve?


    I wonder what happened to them...
    Hell yeah!!! That shit was always busy
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    back when i had aol 1.0 i had to put my modem int he freezer every hour b/c it woudl get too hot...yay for metal modems.. but netzero was the free internet king for awhile.
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    I remember goin from Dos based prodigy to AOL1.0 . haha I used to check out the GamePro section of AOL all the time and waiting 20 minutes for that shit to load. 1500baud modems ftw LOL
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    i used to look at hintai porn...lol

    whens the last time u al printed out a picture..
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    Quote Originally Posted by JITB
    i used to look at hintai porn...lol


    I believe it.
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    i remember the ___ hours free shit just counting up... used to get MADDD floppies in the mail (3.5) i wasnt in the actual "floppy" disk age haha

    so yeah i saw it go from like 5 hours free we were like WOWZERs!!! to like 14 hours we were like OMFG 14 hours free on AOL 4.0 OMG only 21.95 a month!
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    its old news just like Brett ..
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    Quote Originally Posted by RaИdomGuy
    i remember the ___ hours free shit just counting up... used to get MADDD floppies in the mail (3.5) i wasnt in the actual "floppy" disk age haha

    so yeah i saw it go from like 5 hours free we were like WOWZERs!!! to like 14 hours we were like OMFG 14 hours free on AOL 4.0 OMG only 21.95 a month!
    lol i used to collect netzero/aol disks from the 24hr kroger too...
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    I remember when I had to pay to send an email through Prodigy back in '91.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JITB
    lol i used to collect netzero/aol disks from the 24hr kroger too...
    i remember when Netzero was some underground shit like people were like why you paying for internet theres this thing called netzero and its free... everyones like WOWZER!! internet for free?!?!?! had to go to sum1's house to get them to copy it onto like 5 floppies with that program that split up files and then reassembled them.. .LOL

    this was back before you can order the CD version online from the netzero website... back when it was strictly word of mouth type shit
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    ISPs are no different than clutches etc

    in the end, there's really only 2 or 3 companies that market them all


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    I wish I could still check my compuserve email.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JITB
    but netzero was the free internet king for awhile.
    Nah. Juno. Later, QD.
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    I used to have AOL then went to Compuserve way back in the day when we used Dial up
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nemesis
    Anyone remember using Prodigy and/or Compuserve?


    I wonder what happened to them...
    Compuserve was bought out by AOL however many people still carry the @cs.com extension on their email. As far as prodigy goes... Who knows haven't heard anything from them in a long time. I think I still have one of the yellow CDs with the star on it My old school ISP was Mindspring back in the day! They had some of the fastest dial up connections back in the Q1:TF days. Too bad they got bought out by a shitty ISP like Earthlink.
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    Man, I used to have The Simpsons free internet!! It was slow as fuck by the old days' standards, but it was The Simpsons and I was like "OMG JDM TyTe WOWZERS!!!!!" Whatchuknowabouthat?
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    lol COMPUSERVE... they were bought out by AOL shit is old as dirt... Prodigy, Mindspring, etc...
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