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505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Jun 7, 2022, 9:41 AM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Glen wrote: > > > Just yesterday, I saw an email post to a math forum from someone with an > aol.com 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. > > I was recently back in touch with a high-school chum. She was quite proud > of her aol.com 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 > well.com addys proudly. > > 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. > > I was an early patron of the first ISP in Santa Fe (StudioX/nets.com) > 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 swcp.com) they retracted the > threat and kept nets.com running (through whomever bought them out)... > > I do sometimes covet a well.com address, but not enough to actually sign > up for it (seems they *still* offer new well.com addresses?). > https://www.well.com/join/ $150/year! > > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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