Yup... I still remember seeing the letter from Steve Case himself announcing they were terminating the original Commodore-only service after it was re-branded America Online and rolled out for PC and other platforms.
-sc From: Sean Houston [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 10:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT][Humor] AOL I remember Compuserve, Prodigy and AOL being the main 3 companies around. I can't say I was ever aware they were ever known as anything but AOHell. -Sean On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: Correct on the bonus questions (It was a C64 and C128 service). No affiliation with Compuserve, however, so you lose your bonus. (However Compuserve and H&R Block were affiliated, so as a consolation prize you get to sit on TVKÿÿ(tm)s lap) I still need the name of the service. -sc From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 10:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT][Humor] AOL I thought they orgianally supported Commodore 64 based machines. Loaded the software and got a graphical environment. They owned Compuserve, at one time. And If I remember right, Compuserve was owned by H&R Block. On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: [assert NO_GOOLING_ALLOWED] Trivia Question: What was the _PRIOR_ service offered by the company that eventually became AOL? Bonus points for naming the supported platforms. -sc -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 8:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [OT][Humor] AOL I've discovered that if I play an AOL installation CD backwards, I get satanic messages. Then I tried playing it the other way, and something really bad happened: I got AOL. (Adapted from another quote; original author unknown.) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
