Ah, AOL, such memories, some fond, some not! Fond memory: my year as an official AOL volunteer chat host. Yep, fun times slapping down the jail bait kiddies who wanted to talk dirty during the weekly Horticulture Chat or whatever.
Fun: Learning how to make my first website via AOL.
Fun: AOL had an awesome, free WYSIWYG webpage editor, AOLpress. Nowadays it is nowhere to be found, and that is a shame.
Not so fun: trying to get my account canceled while being made to wait for hours on the phone and having my call passed from one operator to another in India who each tried to sell me on staying.
When AOL fell from grace, I was so glad I had never purchased its stock. It is a good example of how a company was at the top of its game and then squandered away the opportunities that offered because of its focus on the acquisition of money rather than serving its users.
I wouldn't touch an AOL app with a ten foot pole, just out of principle.
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