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Bekki Doll |
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A cynical yet secular shiny retrogamer, thread ressurector and fan of the word "gay".
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Reged: 01/28/12
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Posts: 771
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Loc: Freeport, PA
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Re: Not "everyone" was an America Online "luser". ;-)
05/06/12 11:58 PM
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I am using the word "everyone" as in everyone I knew. It was so rediculously popular in my area, the capital of the world.
That's a dang shame. The BBS scene opened my eyes: It's where I first used Usenet and got my first Internet E-mail address since a local BBS had a UUCP gateway.
Since that one BBS was running WildCat! and I also used OffLine eXpress for message board participation and handling my E-mail offline it was a very engrossing setup: I was only online long enough to transfer mail and messages and took my time in reading and responding. It's how I developed my detailed long-form communication skills.
It's a far cry from the chat-oriented zero-attention nonsense that spawned from America Online, a service that billed itself as "being" the Internet. What an insult against the intelligence of those of us who knew better! And woe to the corporate-owned/corporate-subsidized "journalism" that often confused America Online for the Internet and the lemmings who believed every single word, labeled as "news", as gospel!
It's one of the many reasons why I will forever scorn America Online, its managment, and its luserbase. For more reasons you can simply do a search for the crap sent by *.aol.com into Usenet during the '90s.
--Bekki
Combating functional illiteracy with latex-clad drama since the '80s, because old video games rule!
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Thought to myself, "AOL is still kicking?"
