05-28-2024, 09:31 AM
(05-27-2024, 07:17 AM)TSK Wrote: 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.
