Still life with A54 and Nori. Oil on Canvas.
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Coworker in the office: “What’s AOL?”
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“It’s where you go if you’re bad.”
(As I understand it, the last quivering bits of AOL are now a dial-up internet access provider in parts of the US where the local phone companies don’t offer broadband.)
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I have exactly two friends/contacts still on AOL. Anyone else? What’s the headcount?
For the record, I have never been on AOL. We were a Compuserve family. And I had to listen to all my friends at school talk about the AOL only games they played… Arena…
Later, when AIM was a free alternative to Skype, it felt like such a luxury to install it and set up an account. I think I was CheekyRooster on there for some reason… there’s a stray neuron I didn’t know could still fire…
Oh, another one. CheekyRooster came from one of my Linguistics textbooks when they were discussing how semantic meaning gets passed to children - with a line drawing of a mother holding a child looking at (you guessed it) a Rooster. And the mother saying “What a cheeky rooster!”
Wow. It’s like an attic in here.
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AOL Dial-up was officially shuttered last September.
At the moment, it’s just a news aggregator “homepage” and a webmail provider. My mother-in-law still uses her AOL email address.
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Ah, AOL. Once the largest distributor of free shiny drinks coasters in the world.
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Even better when it was free floppy disks. A drink coaster that holds 1.44MB (of your own data!)
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My wife and I met on AOL 30 years ago. She still has an AOL email address.
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I can’t remember if they were running the dialup or if it was a third party. Either way it got shut down because it wasn’t making money, and it was the infrastructure that other providers used…,
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“First time I’ve had a pancake cake”
“It’s not pancake, it’s crêpe!”
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“Hurry up, you’re moving like molasses.”
“No one even knows what that is!”
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the resultant wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 miles per hour (56 kilometers per hour)
Pretty speedy!
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Not to be confused:
(the Dominion Theatre at the bottom of Tottenham Court Road is now on the site)
And if you need a distractinn this afternoon:
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‘…but I mustn’t be mean — oh. [brightening up] I keep forgetting it’s not Lent any more.’
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“Fortunately, the Twilight War happened before anyone invented Generative AI”
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“No, that’s impossible. Anyone with Engineer (Stutterwarp), make a self-control roll not to explain why it’s impossible.”
“The way your brain works is wonderful but don’t do it near me.”
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'As Nietzsche famously said: “If you gaze for long into an abyss, you’ll notice that the abyss gazes also into a second abyss, and there are two… abysses? abyssi? Anyhow, you get the idea.” ’
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- You gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you.
- There is an infinite recursion of abysses each staring into the next
- You gaze into the abyss, and it is you.
- You gaze into the abyss, and it is you, but mirror imaged (Möbius Nietzsche)
- Sign up today for Abyss as a Service!
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Very similar to something I say very often to my youngest - “I love the way your brain works but can you do it a bit quieter?”
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“My nose is full of tree sperm.”
“Can you just call it Hay Fever like everyone else?”
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