Free AOL (really free)

[AmRivlin]

Although I hate AOL severly, I happened to stumble upon this gif which is on AOL's server, how that happened I have no clue! Sign Up!


http://www.aol.com/gr/transpixel.gif

or go here... http://www.aol.com/popups/aol_44.html

[spigidygak]

WTF. . . oh well its still aol. You'll get disconnected a bunch even when its free.

[coocoomike]

nope...it still asks for your credit card at the end...what a scam aol is...

[Aristo]

Dude, don't use AOHell. They suck, period.

[johnnymk]

I didn't realize that people with half a brain still use AOL. Even if they paid me, I wouldn't use AOL. There was an article I read recently that said that a lot of people keep their crummy ISP's because they don't want to bother contacting everybody if they change it. That has to be the ONLY reason people stay with AOL.

[CuriousGeorge157]

What would u recommend instead of AOL?

[spigidygak]

Anything else. . . literally and seriously.

[johnnymk]

I have Erols as my ISP. It is the best!!. I rarely get knocked off; I have no problems getting on; their tech support is courteous and helpful. It's only $99.00 for 6 months of prepaid service. However, I think it's only available in the Northeast. I had AOL before switching. What a waste! And their tactics are really scary when you try to get rid of them. Their customer service is the absolute worst. They rank up there with used car salesmen!Everyone that I know who has AOL says the same thing, but like most Americans, they say OH Well!! and try to change the subject when you mention changing. I guess that's the reason it's called America On Line. It must represent something about modern day America.

[qboy]

AOL is f*%# up. What they mean by "no credit card required" is to use your checking account.

[grappa]

Man, you people make fun of AOLers having half a brain when that link above is obviously a GIF image with no power to do anything! Too funny...


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[l0w]

Originally posted by spigidygak
Anything else. . . literally and seriously.

Absolutely correct. Do a ratings/review search on deja.com on ISPs, and AOL is dead last.

http://www.deja.com/channels/channel.xp?CID=11970

[pop-eye-]

I had MSN out in the boonies for a long time once i quit doing anything but givin them a password to login i enjoyed them pretty much. might be an Ok alternative to AOHell
don't expect great things from them but they are BETTER than aol by a long shot and most of their bandwidth was UUNET i rarely got kicked off "when i had modem" i once said i wouldnt have aol if they paid me to...i still won't :)

[coleslaw]

it's interesting that this thread has 800 views and only 15 replies. i guess there are lots and lots of lurkers out there!! come on out! show your faces! we won't bite... hard! :laugh:

[hapoo]

holy sh*t, more than 800 people have visited this thread. What a bunch nice aol people. :D

[Edited by hapoo on 09-06-2000 at 01:24 PM]

[hapoo]

Originally posted by chosenfool
you know what? those 800 views may be from AOL members who are also GA members...looking for a free month....

aww crap, I saw this comming

[AmRivlin]

I didn't see this coming... I actually just posted cause I thought it sounded funny, but if you want my 2 cents....

I know a family who go a cable modem and had aol piggyback.
They pay 49.99 for CBL and 9.99 for access to AOL...

They asked me if there was a cheaper way, I said yea cut the cord to AOL... The said that that wouldn't be an option since they wanted to use E-mail still....

Obviously AOL has done a good job...at mind warping.

[bella]

So one time I thought I got AOL for free but when I got my credit card I was being charged for this long distance provider thing by AOL!!! AND they wouldn't credit my money back....

[Aristo]

For most of people I know who still use AOHell, the reasons they don't want to change ISP are 'cause they all love AOHell's email also they have been using AOHell since the beginning. Yeah, I used AOHell for 2, 3 years before. The busy signal and 50min online check really piss me off.

[pop-eye-]

Seems to me that aol gives out free email to AIM users??
maybe i am wrong i just cannot for the life of me see what others see in AOL..

[zeester]

Wow you guys, harsh onto AOL.

I've been on AOL for 6 years. why am I on it? because there was a time when it was one of the VERY FEW companies through which I could connect to the internet!

I kept it through UCLA and just signed on for email through TCPIP. I've never had a prob with AOL--half of the time I had school connections and I never had to deal with slow servers, but come on, not ALL AOL users are "half brainers!"

A good number of them probably also post deals on GOT APEX! Hint hint hint...

[Speedfreak]

Back when I first wanted internet I used AOhell. The trick is to use your free month and then cancel and they will call you and offer you another free month. I did this a few times until I was fed up with the damn service even if it WAS free.

[Aristo]

Originally posted by Speedfreak
Back when I first wanted internet I used AOhell. The trick is to use your free month and then cancel and they will call you and offer you another free month. I did this a few times until I was fed up with the damn service even if it WAS free.
Ah, I remember the old time. In order to save 20 bucks a month, I kept changing my SN and all.

[pgq]

last time I used aol was when it was command line on an old apple IIc. get the disk, istall it, use the free time, sign up again with another free disk, etc. man that was a long time ago;)
wait, this ol' dude's got a memory leak, that was compuserve. Oh well, they're one and the same now, so you could give me a technical on that one :)
Have fun guys and gals, you only get one 20-100 year chance

[hapoo]

hmm I've never had problems with finding a good isp, as long as i can remember we've always had at least 10 isp other than the national ones. I'm talking like 8-9 years ago here. For the longest time i was with this one 0-profit isp that charged 20 bucks (while everyone else charged 30+) and they had the best service. only once did i try aol just to see what all the hoot was about (5 years ago) and it just sucked ass. I got spammed a whole lot and evertime i'd connect i'd have to wait 5 min for it to load ads to show me before i could even use the service.

[Speedfreak]

of crappy ISPs from days gone by. At, least they would be crappy by AOhell's standards, oh sure. AOL is the best...eh... so they say.

[attgig]

Originally posted by chosenfool

but, like the commercial says, everyone i know is ON it...(sigh)



Hmmmm, yeah, everybody's on it, but just use aim, talk to people, and use a better isp.

[Jnmcda0]

I used AOL up until about a month ago. I signed up for it in 1995, back when unlimited access was $19.95...just like pretty much all the other companies at the time. I did have major problems connecting for awhile, but the last two or three years, the dial-up connections worked pretty well. I, like many people, kept it around only because I didn't want to change e-mail addresses. Finally, I said f*** it and got a Yahoo! email address and WorldSpy, which was a free ISP that didn't have any banner ads. WorldSpy sold out to Juno last month, so I got Juno, which has banner ads like FreeInternet.com and Bluelight (K-marts free ISP). Now, I've got a cable connection free from the university, so I'm finally off the dialups.

When I called AOL to cancel my account, the tech support lady kept going on and on about how I was on the wrong billing plan and that I could save money by being on this other plan. I told her that I was getting FREE Internet and e-mail and that it was completely stupid for me to continue paying for AOL, but she still kept trying to persuade me.