Reply #16: I've Made A Point [View All]

of NEVER using AOHell! I was on their first network, Q-Link back in the Commodore 64 days. Then it was a blast! Small, fun, just a good group of guys shootin' the shit and bragging on how many disk drives they had strung around their living rooms in a daisy chain. We had blazing fast 120 baud modems and we were hot shit on silver platters!

/wavy lines

When they dumped the Commodore stuff, it was right after a bunch of people re-upped their memberships to Q-. AFAIK nobody got their money back. Not only that, but the contest points that were being awarded never got redeemed, either. Wht we *were* offered was membership in AOL... which, OF COURSE did NOT support the C=64, C=120 or the newer machines Commodore was launching (Alzheimer's! I can't remember what they were called!). NO, to get onto AOL, you HAD to have a PC!

About six months later, most of the Commo BBSes went to hacker heaven and I had to get my first PC, a retread 426 kit-bashed together from six other 'puters. Periodically, I'd go over and have a look at AOHell, but what I saw disgusted me. Ads, ads, more ads and when you wwere tired of all the ads, you could stop and look at the commercials! Booooh!

I've hung out on the Well, bashed around Genie, Slip.net, early versions of ATT and others. NOTHING sucks as bad as AOL except possibly MSonline! (took me three tries to get OFF that friggin server! Yuck!)

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