Does anyone use aol anymore

AOL, due to its size, is the last man standing from the dialup age. A MUA is a lot more resistant against attack than a Web browser, and gives more options when it comes to rulesets I can move vital E-mails that hit Yahoo to my hosted Exchange server which I actually look at.

Ever since around my bias has been against those with Gmail accounts. Why because using something different gives you a sense of superiority. AOL was an ad laden mess once it go big. It really was foolish to use it if you did not have to do so.

GMAIL's only real issue is privacy concerns. Because anyone who deserves the label tech knows better, it does however suggest you're an idiot. While I'm at it would you be interested in Penis Pills? Also please click on this link because I have important information about your Social Security benefits. If you have an aol address, it probably means that you have been online longer than most, and have no compelling reason to go though the considerable trouble changing your email address.

Anyone you actively correspond with gets replies from your new account. If you don't correspond with them via email within a year they probably don't really matter to you anyway. Shut down the old account after a year or two - or don't. It's not much trouble at all really. What astonishes me is people who use AOL or Gmail similar accounts for t.

I have dozens of web accounts, for which I use my yahoo address. It would be a huge PITA to have to change everything. And besides, what would I gain? Hey, we were having a nice heated discussion about the merits or demerits of using AOL or Gmail for your free email services, then you have to come in with your sensibilities and making a good point, and, well, now everything is ruined!!

If I saw somebody with an aol. I've had my Hotmail email address since , prior to Microsoft taking it over. I've stuck with it because it works. It does exactly what Hotmail promised from the start, providing email that is independent of my ISP or employer. I've only had three email addresses since And two of them still work. If you write me at any email address I've had for the last 19 years, it will still get to me.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. And I value consistency and reliability over the latest fad any day. I'd much rather hire a guy who still uses his old aol email address than some kid who changes his email address along with his mailing address every year because he's unreliable and unstable.

I have an AOL email I still use depending on the need, and use it as a barometer to judge folks I give it to. If someone balks and throws a douche-fit about an email address I really am not interested in dealing with them. It has not caused me to miss out on employment or side work, but the mild concern is there. It's been my email for about two-dog ages, and I rather not run the issue of changing over everything that goes there.. It's an email address people.

In January, there was pressure from some activist investors for Yahoo! I ran into someone that uses CompuServe email awhile ago The nostalgia with that is pretty funny. 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. It doesn't really have anywhere near the level of taint.

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Follow Slashdot on LinkedIn. But even if AOL's still alive, using an AOL email address has long been seen as a way of signaling that you're stuck in the s. A recent analysis of Dice data found that a mere 1. 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.

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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 ran on a platform called GeoWorks, which was a lot like Windows, but it could run on pretty much any computer of the day. AOL, as it was quickly nicknamed, became popular just by sheer force of will.

The company blanketed the market with floppy disks with their software pre-installed. These were sent by mail. Believe it or not, there was a time when AOL could do no wrong. At one time it seemed foolish to even compete against them. Yet, as early as the s, AOL users began to be scorned by the more tech-forward internet community. AOL was a walled garden full of dial-up users and the future was more about DSL, fiber, and wireless. Today, AOL is a provider of free email services, as they continue to serve a fairly large community.

A spokesperson for Verizon Media didn't immediately respond for comment. Skip Navigation. Key Points. There are still 1. The number of AOL dial-up subscribers is now "in the low thousands," according to a source.