America Online Simulator

[theshadowknows]

Those really were the good days. Thought you guys might find this as amusing as I did. Github link for the installer below. 
 

https://github.com/erfg12/AOL_4.0_Emu/releases

[jaded]

ROFL!!!

I still miss Netscape!

[CCoburn]

Those really were the good days.

They really were. I was using it a lot around 2000. My favorite rooms were the Metaphysics and the Maine room, and then everyone moved from Metaphysics to Spiritual Insights and then finally to one of the News rooms. In the Maine room everyone always wanted the bolt so they could boot people for fun.

I would go to the Eagles Club and/or a local bar for drinks and pool; take a taxi home and grab more drinks on the way and then hang out on AOL well into the next day. I would blast my Onkyo with four Infinity Primus 250s the whole time(a+b), and later upgraded to a Harmon Kardon HK 3490 and added a couple of Klipsch floor standing and moved the other two Infinities upstairs for the living room system which is used now mostly for the PS4 and ROKU.

There were some really smart people on AOL. I remember Dew Hickey and CoolMedCat - one was meta and the other was science/physics. One was always going on about muon light waves, and the other was where I first heard somebody list the eleven dimensions of M-theory upon inquiry.

I think I maybe stopped using it somewhere around 2009 and thought about reinstalling it from time to time, but the AOL software was a bit egocentric out-of-the-gate and could wreak havoc with your computer, so I figured it wasn't worth it and opted out. It could be tweaked and tamed, but I never bothered with it again.

After AOL I was getting more into forums, like this one.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Those really were the good days. Thought you guys might find this as amusing as I did. Github link for the installer below. 
 

https://github.com/erfg12/AOL_4.0_Emu/releases

LMFAO.

Where is Antagonist Trivia?

[Raptured]

They had the best chat rooms

[CCoburn]

They had the best chat rooms

They did, and in one particular chat room about half of the users knew each other IRL. There were relationships started from that chat room with girls that would hook-up with guys followed with the drama of break-ups and then they'd start another relationship with another guy from the same room.

There were parties with live music hosted by some of the users in that room. I even went one night on a whim. It was about thirty miles away and when I finally found it I had to drive down some dark narrow dirt road, but someone came up and said I went a little too far and I had to back up some and pointed to a place where I could park, but with it being unfamiliar and not being able to see much I inadvertently backed into this small antique iron tractor and one of my tires instantly began going flat.

The next day after the party I did get some help changing the tire and then proceeded to drive home from there with a hangover and a donut.

Don't know whatever happened to that room; it just disappeared one day. I figured maybe they all moved, but if that was the case I never found out where.

[putnam6]

Hell I was on Prodigy and Compuserve before AOL, but AOL was where I learned about ATS.

When we first started using email way back, I already had AOL. So my Dad needed email for work and I set up his account too, later everybody else's (4 people) had an AOL account. This was the early 90s my Dad never wanted to switch cause so many clients had his address that we never let it go, even though we changed everybody else's I still monitor Dad's(RIP) email and we still get inquiries from legit customers, for perspective, Dad's been gone for 8 years, every time I go to cancel it I start reading all the letters over the years and just can't. Besides so many other accounts are through his email, UPS , FED EX probably 8-9 others. 

Those CDs though had to be billions of them...

[Maxmars]

They did, and in one particular chat room about half of the users knew each other IRL. There were relationships started from that chat room with girls that would hook-up with guys followed with the drama of break-ups and then they'd start another relationship with another guy from the same room.

There were parties with live music hosted by some of the users in that room. I even went one night on a whim. It was about thirty miles away and when I finally found it I had to drive down some dark narrow dirt road, but someone came up and said I went a little too far and I had to back up some and pointed to a place where I could park, but with it being unfamiliar and not being able to see much I inadvertently backed into this small antique iron tractor and one of my tires instantly began going flat.

The next day after the party I did get some help changing the tire and then proceeded to drive home from there with a hangover and a donut.

Don't know whatever happened to that room; it just disappeared one day. I figured maybe they all moved, but if that was the case I never found out where.

Wow, you were there to witness the creation of the new "virtual" social order.  This was the earliest stage of people discovering 'connections' that didn't require physically meeting and hanging out together.  Nothing similar existed before.... now, there we are today... with many 'keeping a distance' between each other so as not to repeat the pains of the past.  But, we all learn over time.  Things always change.

[broccoli]

my mom still uses her AOL account for email lol I would be in the visual basic chat rooms back when vbs was an actual thing Think we made like pokemon battlers or something back then how old was I probably like 12 maybe 13 I wish I could git clone this and add you as a friend i'll have to test it to see how far the sim goes