"Welcome to AOL"
"you have email"

was a glorious sound when your mum and dad had just left to go to a wedding or something.

Each week the free internet would run out. so we would cancel, get another disc from AOL. install - free trial - and off we go.

I think Ive still got a load of those discs somewhere in one of my junk drawers somewhere.

The AOL girl was fit.
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 15:15, 4 replies)

Poor Connie
Her dad's a LibDem MP

Can report that Joanna Lumley is still the voice of AOL UK "You've got email"
( Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 15:22, closed)

I was amazed that my computer was telling me that i had email
How did it know? I assumed some sort of futuristic witchcraft. It felt like AOL was a person. It was frigging talking to me.

Infact, I now work in IT, and know the reason behind this was horribly fake, and AOL didnt speak to me like some sort of Mystic Meg.
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 15:35, closed)

Well fit,

if you like that sort of thing.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 19:18, closed)

I think everyone did the multiple free trial thing
My parents included.
(wehttamman via B3ta for microwave, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 21:01, closed)