If AOL email addresses aren't status symbols, then what are they? Well, the personalized search site Hunch crunched some numbers based on some data they'd collected from nearly half a million email users. Here's how they described the average AOL emailer :. AOL users are most likely to be overweight women ages who have a high school diploma and are spiritual, but not religious. Family is their first priority.
At home, they lounge around in sweats. AOL users are optimistic extroverts who prefer sweet snacks and like working on a team. In contrast, they said of Gmail users are "career-focused and plugged in--they mostly read blogs, have an iPhone and laptop, and listen to music via MP3s and computers. And, you get an aggregated home page with stories of the day, just like you used to with Yahoo way back when.
So what, I say. So you have an address aol. Home News Editorials. But is it really that bad? A little bit about AOL America Online, as it was originally called, launched in early as one of the first popular graphical dial-up services. Good heavens, that makes me feel old. About the Author. It looks just like it did in the 90s. What I'd like to see more people moving towards is self hosting. Yes, but back in its not like you could just Google it.
If you were not attacked to some organization with access, and your local public library did not offer shell accounts or something the big name BBS services with internet gateways AOL, CompuServe, and Prodigy were usually the way to go. At least until you could find a local ISP. Keep in mind most folks were at the time using DOS and Windows.
So you also needed to bring some software to the mix, to do PPP etc. That stuff was no on the shelf at. Even back in , AOL was considered a haven for idiots and suckers.
Anyone with half a clue went somewhere else. This even includes the "can't be bothered" crowd. Not that PPP was that difficult to deal with. It came pre-packaged in the same kinds of automated software installers that AOL came with. If by "early adopter" you mean "drooling, clueless moron", then yes, your translation is correct. AOL employees used to have aol.
So AOL started giving employees a corp. Then folks would start replying to their emails. I worked at a. Ran into him again at a trade show, and he explained he actually worked for AOL. And we didn't get the sale. Go figure. Did have a corp. As a former AOL employee - this is false. The corp. Those of us on the tech side of the business did often use aol. I was surprised at the price tag, but not incredibly. They are pretty big players in online advertising, and they do have some content that people look at regularly.
They haven't been a hot company for almost 20 years now, but it is amazing the number of assets and random shit you can pick up quickly which then slowly unravels as you wind down. Just think of the shit Google is going to have once they start working their way down to irrelevance. Well, assuming they can make a profit on anything but search, t. I'm not going to flame, but I'm curious why you would think someone stupid for it.
I still use gmail for the simple reasons that it always had more free storage than I needed, and now I'm stuck with it because it's been my personal address for almost 10 years. That doesn't make someone a moron and yes, I'm aware of what they do with it, I put nothing of real value there that wasn't there over five years ago. My hotmail account would have been it, except a short-sighted MS exec deleted a bunch of e-mails. I don't have a gmail address, because Google admits up front they scan the contents of your email for advertising purposes.
AOL has always been the mark of an Internet dunce. There was never a time when it didn't have a negative connotation, among those with a clue. No self-respecting techie would be caught dead with an AOL Email address. Gmail usually just means you're too lazy to explore your options, or to setup your own domain name.
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For the past several years, Websites from Gizmodo to Lifehacker have all declared that still using an AOL email address is counterproductive, to put it mildly. But is that actually true? Do the people in your life and work actually care whether you use AOL, Hotmail, Gmail, or a custom address, or is the idea of 'email bias' an overblown myth?
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted. More Login. Archived Discussion Load All Comments. Full Abbreviated Hidden. What does it say about you? Score: 2 , Troll. Re: What does it say about you? Score: 2. I use it still , but as an email flophouse. Re: Score: 3. That's HoTMaiL for me, it's amazing how much spam is in that thing.
It's like getting in a time machine and going back to Also in reference TFA I have a feeling posts like this are going to motivate people to seek out an aol. Making anyone the one's thinking 'tech dinosaur' dinosaur's themselves. Re:What does it say about you?
Score: 4 , Insightful. It used to be worse. Now you are just a dinosaur. Before you were king of the chumps. Parent Share twitter facebook. Score: 5 , Insightful. Score: 4 , Funny. Score: 5 , Funny. You'd think that, but the websites he made were all on GeoCities. Re: Score: 2. Score: 5 , Interesting. Image has always mattered on Slashdot, but it has typically been a different set of constraints and perspectives than the rest of the population.
Trouble is, the perspectives of-old are self-limiting by definition, as they cater to a niche audience. Once an organization in this case, a website has hit its upper bounds in that niche audience, it needs to branch-out to a wider audience to continue to grow, and in the process of doing that often such organizations will discard whatever core beliefs let th.
How about if they show up for a cross country race wearing stiletto heels? This is so cool, I just went and got myself an aol email account based on this article! The point is, sometimes you WANT to look like a non-techie. Great deception value. Get off my lawn! If not, then why would anyone use AOL mail? Score: 5 , Informative. From their marketing: Unlimited storage, 25 MB of photo and video attachments, advanced spam filters, virus protection.
The UIs in were often better than the latest text-free tablet-oriented junk. Not sure about AOL specifically, since I never used it, but everything from Google maps to Windows to Office to video games have had regressions in UI over the past decade.
Re: Score: 2 , Troll. Maintaining a consistent email address? Using a service that scans your correspondence to market directly to you? People who value their, and my, privacy? The Oatmeal Score: 5 , Funny. Share twitter facebook.
Re:The Oatmeal Score: 5 , Funny. Aol users: Keeping the "h Shouldn't that be "h Both the addresses work.
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