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user-inactivated  ·  3495 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions

It was available in the program AOL (america online). Back then before AOL instant messenger, it was an internet service provider, as people used their software to connect online through dialup, chatrooms were plenty, people wrote punters (used HTML code to freeze, lag, crash the AOL client). Good days, but it was too limiting, and I started to learn about the internet after they got rid of me and I got a real ISP - internet service provider





briandmyers  ·  3494 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm so old I remember using ICQ, which I believe AOL bought and turned into AOL instant messenger. ICQ was like magic back then.

user-inactivated  ·  3494 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes, age provides wisdom. I remember ICQ, never a big fan though. Near the end days of my usage, people were obsessing with shorter login numbers, attempting to steal/hack some.