Fish isn't the only one that can give a version breakdown...
Yeah, here in the US aol is $23.90 a month. As everyone has been saying, they get worse as they get newer. 6.0 is really the last one I'd bother using. 7.0 had gayohell radio which didn't even work yet, 8.0 included more junk (and some new spyware), 9.0 continues the spyware tradition by including more (it won't turn on if they aren't installed). Also, 7-9 just take up more and more ram. And now there are two versions of 9.0. The second edtion has an aol dialer (haven't tested it, but I did test the beta, got cable before the full version came out).
Slash I wish you could use AOL but you can't I'm sure.
It is very horrible.
They would almost certainly give you up to three free
months and then you could quit.
I had to use it here until broadband was available.
If you could use it you should install it on an older version of
Windows with Internet Explorer 5.0 and after AOL messed it
up you could install the 5.5 update and it works much better.
Use the oldest version of AOL that would work as they got more
invasive with each new version.
You have to have their program installed to get on the net
with their service. It doesn't work on Linux although I once
saw an old workaround. It arbitrarily changes your settings
and installs all it's own stuff as default. It often wreaks the
system and things begin to deteriate from there. If you can't
get free time it would be crazy to install it.
Thump
An update to AOL 9 (you might call it 9.5) includes a nifty seperate dialer. I only beta-tested it, though, rather than upgrade. I'm lazy. People think AOL is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Everybody here has that or SBC Yahoo! DSL, or "High Speed Cable Internet".
we had AOL in early 94, I dont recall using it (altho that could be me in the AOL commercials with the hammer hitting shit), but thats the only time we had AOL and we HATED IT!
AOLs brower is pretty bad, I think it's based off of IE. And AOL has recently said that they would stop use Netscape and ship instead IE with their AOLs.
Hey, netscape aint bad. Dont forget its based off mozilla. It has gotten a little more stupid lately, much more n00b, but early versions like 3 and 4 were good in the day.
What's the official site of AOL?
I wanna try their latest 9 version... someone said it's cool.
NOOOO for the love of god dont, PLEASE. AOL is NOT cool, and if you havent ever used the service, canceling it after the free period can be a REAL pain the the arse.
Well, what I mean is that whenever you go to a place, probably the vast majority of the people online will have 1 of those 3 types of service. In Omsk it will probably be ~98% dailup, here it is more like ~75% Cable, ~25% dailup.
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First, AOL is horrible.
Second, AOL isnt free.
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Fish can give you more detail and a version-by-version breakdown.
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Yeah, here in the US aol is $23.90 a month. As everyone has been saying, they get worse as they get newer. 6.0 is really the last one I'd bother using. 7.0 had gayohell radio which didn't even work yet, 8.0 included more junk (and some new spyware), 9.0 continues the spyware tradition by including more (it won't turn on if they aren't installed). Also, 7-9 just take up more and more ram. And now there are two versions of 9.0. The second edtion has an aol dialer (haven't tested it, but I did test the beta, got cable before the full version came out).
It is very horrible.
They would almost certainly give you up to three free
months and then you could quit.
I had to use it here until broadband was available.
If you could use it you should install it on an older version of
Windows with Internet Explorer 5.0 and after AOL messed it
up you could install the 5.5 update and it works much better.
Use the oldest version of AOL that would work as they got more
invasive with each new version.
You have to have their program installed to get on the net
with their service. It doesn't work on Linux although I once
saw an old workaround. It arbitrarily changes your settings
and installs all it's own stuff as default. It often wreaks the
system and things begin to deteriate from there. If you can't
get free time it would be crazy to install it.
Thump
NTL's "technical support" helpline isnt a helpline, its a pay-per-listen radio station lmao
And Slash,
Even "Omskelecom" can do better!
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NOOOO for the love of god dont, PLEASE. AOL is NOT cool, and if you havent ever used the service, canceling it after the free period can be a REAL pain the the arse.
Will NOT install it.
Apart from different names and compnaies, I think that's ALL that most people can easily get: dailup, Cable, or DSL.
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