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What Happened to America Online? [LGR Tech Tales] (Patreon)

Published:
2017-02-08 05:30:59
Edited:
2017-02-10 14:21:58
Imported:
2021-03

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What Happened to America Online? [LGR Tech Tales]

This episode covers the story of AOL from birth to death, by way of the Apple Link and endless free disks and CDs. Join me in LGR Tech Tales, looking at stories of technological inspiration, failure, and everything in-between!

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avfusion

Tuesday night treat :D

Anonymous

When you get the push notification & click on the video too fast and get "We're still processing this video" *sigh* 😜

Anonymous

Life isnt perfect, I guess we just wait. Watching it now, my time was 2300 MST Arizona time when it started for me

Anonymous

I was going to work on my next video. Thanks a lot dude 😜

Harry Thornton

Speaking of Bebo, a DK history book I have called "Take Me Back" (published in 2008) actually features a page telling the story of Napolen Bonaparte as a Bebo account: <a href="http://m.imgur.com/Kf0S8mH" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://m.imgur.com/Kf0S8mH</a>

Anonymous

I remember doing AOL/Prodigy, and even a bit of a personal favorite, Sierra's Imagination Network. Those were exciting times since the idea of connecting to an entire network of content was so fresh. Worrying about tying up the phone line or going over usage hours, did suck, though. Speaking of Sierra's Imagination Network, have you considered coverage that as a topic? It felt ahead of its time (even if it was beaten by other services), and had that Sierra charm.

Anonymous

I remember using AOL in the late 90s, I remember downloading games that were only a few MB took hours to download. But there were some good memories, I met a friend of mine through AOL.

Anonymous

Why no mention of the overabundance of "AOL Keyword:(thing)"? Geez. Back in the day when every other commercial mentioned it... much like Facebook, Twitter, Etc. are named today.

Anonymous

This was fun to watch! So interesting and now I'm keen to here more about the start of MSN and Internet Explorer. Ah Netscape Navigator. That made me nostalgic. And that that running man logo. So iconic!

Anonymous

My memories of AOL (in Australia back in the 90's) was that it was a part of the installing windows routine, on the first boot to desktop, uninstalling the damn thing. Exactly as you said, dial up was usually bundled with your phone and TV, so why would you pay extra on top to use another service? MSN Messenger was king in Australia. AOL was just an annoying, redundant desktop icon.

Anonymous
>>3861497

And in hindsight, I don't think calling it America Online was helping them internationally, and considering the internet was global, I'm not surprised they rebranded to AOL. But by then it was too late.

Anonymous

Awesome work with this episode. I'm still a little in awe that they're still around, at least in some sense (unlike many of the other firms who've had the Tech Tales treatment).

Anonymous

Excellent!

mavrick

as far as I'm concerned, AOL stopped existing after 2004

Anonymous

Love these tech tales. Gotta say, I had both AOL and Compuserve (the latter only on OS/2 for that matter), and I'

Anonymous
>>3865597

would only use AOL for recreation . Compuserve was where any serious homework and such got done. Compuserve was serious business, while AOL was graphical junk (not to say i didn't like AOL, since i BEGGED my parents to get it because everyone else was.)

BastetFurry

My first analogue Flatrate was from AOL, for if i recall correctly ~89 Deutsche Mark a month. My dad paid for it and i didn't ask. :) The trick to bypass to automatic idle logoff was starting an endless ping to some random service, by the way.

Leif

Kinda got used to the frequent CDs in the mail when I was a kid, at the time it seemed normal for some reason.

Lindsay Michelle

All the nostalgia in this video, for real. AOL was a big part of growing up in the 90s, at least for me! That login screen and accompanying dial-up noises (and "You've got mail!") will be forever burned in my memory. I know I jumped ship to just using an non-AOL browser (probably IE) in the early 2000s, when we got broadband. I think my mom uses AOL still for some odd reason, and now it looks so freaking different from the old days. BTW, I liked the blink-and-miss-it reference to your goofing around on AOL video where that lady wanted you to light her cigarette, haha :D

Anonymous

Wow, this one must have taken you weeks and maybe months to put together. Documentary quality here. I think there will be a whole new segment of viewers introduced to your channel. To think that you researched all of this, wrote it, narrated it, edited it and then uploaded it all without a team behind you is quite phenomenal.

LazyGameReviews
>>3872015

Thanks a lot, Ron! This one has been in the works for ages now, easily the most I've put into any one video so far.

Justin Dotson

Oddly enough I want to watch "You've Got Mail" and laugh at how outdated it is now.

Steve Martin

Great video! I was a Prodigy user in the 90s and I hope down the line, there might be a Tech Tales about their service!

Anonymous

Yahoo + AOL.... Wow, why not add myspace and geocities to that? Together they'll have at least 10 customers!

Anonymous

Awesome video! I was so excited to see that this was done so soon after the Quantum link episode- and while making LGR foods content too! Keep it up, Clint ;-)

Anonymous

Clint, this might be your best Tech Tales yet. It's far and away my favorite series that you do, and this two part retrospective on QuantumLink/America Online is among the best it has to offer. Keep doing this level of work, Clint, and I can keep being proud to back it. Great job!

LazyGameReviews
>>3880837

Oh yeah, I was excited to make this one right after Quantum Link was done since I was researching both of these stories at the same time!

LazyGameReviews
>>3873210

I plan to cover them sometime! Prodigy was my very first exposure to an online service as a kid, it was great.

LazyGameReviews
>>3860756

I have no experience with Imagination Network, so a video is rather unlikely at this point. But I find it fascinating, and have several of the disks for it!

Anonymous

I gotta admit, I didn't get to use AOL personally (though admittedly probably because I wasn't old enough to use computers around its heyday). Though we did have a laugh with the CDs we kept getting from them (I don't know if you'll find this funny or not): basically, we'd pop the CD in the microwave to "check it for viruses". But still, I certainly remember commercials about it and the keywords they'd talk about on stuff from movies to cartoons (mostly cartoons).

evistre

I loved this one. I remember being super impressed by AOL when I was wee, and as I got older, hating it a lot. I played Slingo a bunch and hung out in the forums.