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<blockquote type="cite">On Jun 7, 2022, at 9:59 AM, Frank Wimberly <wimberly3@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">I had a CMU Andrew account. You're all pikers. Long live AFS.<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 7, 2022, 9:41 AM Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Glen wrote:<br>
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Just yesterday, I saw an email post to a math forum from someone with an <a href="http://aol.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">
aol.com</a> suffix. I thought "Who in hell still uses AOL?" Ha! Now I've got a bad case of FOMO. But I'll be damned if I'm joining yet another Discord server ... maybe next week.
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<p>I was recently back in touch with a high-school chum. She was quite proud of her
<a href="http://aol.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">aol.com</a> account and I didn't have the heart to tell her how much the olde garde who had been on some version of the internet before Al Gore (and AOL and Compuserve) invented it considered AOL users
to be an embarrassment. And then there are the WELL (whole earth 'lectronic link) folks who were (in?) ordinately proud of their Bay Area BBS system that hosted thousands (tens of?) in the 80s. I still have friends who use their
<a href="http://well.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">well.com</a> addys proudly.
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<p>I am still a little mad/dismissive of AOL (and SciAm) because we did an early hypermedia "proof of concept" for SciAm (student project at LANL) and they blithely were (in the background) signing like a 10 year deal with AOL to provide that service for their
customers. For that whole decade (into the 2000s) I think Scientific American did not even have a website (or when they did it was served through AOL). We did all the mockup on a NeXT machine which was a little unfair and/or showed things in too good of
a light really. Maybe what AOL did (pretty lame BTW) was actually a good LCD (least common denominator) for *their* customers and many who were dialing in at 1200bps on an early Winderz or even DOS machine.</p>
<p>I was an early patron of the first ISP in Santa Fe (StudioX/<a href="http://nets.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">nets.com</a>) with Roadrunner.com and several others coming in on their heels for my first private e-mail/web address, but let it go when
(on their 10th anniversary) they *said* they were selling/passing us all off to one of the others and becoming nothing but a boutique web design/services shop. Apparently enough of their customers raised a ruckus because after I'd moved to ABQ based Southwest
Cyberport (thus <a href="http://swcp.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">swcp.com</a>) they retracted the threat and kept
<a href="http://nets.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">nets.com</a> running (through whomever bought them out)...
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<p>I do sometimes covet a <a href="http://well.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">
well.com</a> address, but not enough to actually sign up for it (seems they *still* offer new
<a href="http://well.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">well.com</a> addresses?).
<span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.well.com/join/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.well.com/join/</a> $150/year!</span></p>
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