So, what...like a dozen people?

Their severance package was 18,000 free sign up CDs

Who the fark still has AOL?

Mugato: Who the fark still has AOL?

You know, half of the people in the US have below average IQs...

wee: Mugato: Who the fark still has AOL?

You know, half of the people in the US have below average IQs...

In the Dark Times I worked tech support for AOL (it was that or gay porno and I'm too skinny for gay porno). So yes, people are stupid. The customers almost as stupid as the people who ran AOL tech support.

I'm convinced that a large portion of AOL's subscribers are people that just do not want to get a different email address.

What do they do exactly?

I other news, people still work for AOL?

MaxxLarge: So, what...like a dozen people?

LOL, I was going to say, "So what, one dude loses his job. Why is that newsworthy?"

Damn, I'm surprised they still have a third left to fire.

What is this "A O L" that you speak of?

wee: Mugato: Who the fark still has AOL?

You know, half of the people in the US have below average IQs...

...adjusted for Lake Wobegone, I assume.

Mugato: Who the fark still has AOL?

The same people that'll buy Palin's book.

Great headline, +1 subby

Yet when management called the employees to give them the news, they were convinced to keep them on for an extra 6 months at no extra cost.

I remember it took me over an hour to cancel my account.

BalugaJoe: I remember it took me over an hour to cancel my account.

I remember those days. I usually recommended just calling the credit card company and disputing the charges. It is much faster.

Well that sucks :( Guess I'll reach out to all my old coworkers (former AOLer) and see who's gone and who's still there...we need new employees at my current company anyway...

/worked with the network engineers
//good group of people
///sorry to hear about the layoffs, but glad I got out when I did (over 3 years ago)...

Are they still just dial-up internet provider? What exactly do they do these days?

Wow, people here seem to be under the impression that AOL is still a primary internet service provider. That's been a minority of their income for years now. Most of their income is in online media and advertising. In fact, ISP account work is something they've been shrinking and getting rid of for 8 years.

Since they don't do ISP work very much anymore, they're shedding the people that did most of that work. They've been steadily dropping people for 10 years, and they put roughly zero work into trying to uphold an ISP customer base. There's no more need for customer service and support for those services. Advertising requires far less people.

/has family that work in their corporate structure
//run, run I say!

Barakku: Their severance package was 18,000 free sign up CDs

That's what I got when I got laid off from video professor, but I ended up owing $126,000 for shipping and handling.

wee: You know, half of the people in the US have below average IQs...

Half have below median IQs. Averages don't work the way you think they work. I guess you're in the bottom half of what you're talking about.

Mugato: Who the fark still has AOL?

THIS. WHAT THE FRAK, AMERICA.

When AOL first merged with TimeWarner, I remember seeing a Saturday Night Live where during the skit, there was a crawl at the bottom of the screen taunting their main competitor at the time (Viacom?). At one point, they even wrote "HELLO? HAVE YOU EVER EVEN HEARD OF AOL?" like it was the fuel that would rocket TimeWarner into awesomeness forever and ever.

Thinking back on that makes me laugh much more than Saturday Night Live ever has since then.

I know several people that have AOL. They do not want to give up their AOL email addys.

Pick: I know several people that have AOL. They do not want to give up their AOL email addys.

And they don't yet realize that you get AOL email addresses for free? You don't have to pay for a service to get it.

Renowned transvestite sexologist: wee: You know, half of the people in the US have below average IQs...

Half have below median IQs. Averages don't work the way you think they work. I guess you're in the bottom half of what you're talking about.

So what percentage of Americans lie below mean IQ? Is IQ not based on a bell curve?

B HUSSEIN OSCAMA IS A MUSLIM ACORN BABY KILLING SOCIALIST NAZI JEW MEECROB.


Oh sorry, I saw AOL in the headling and it.....it....it just came out.

Goodbye.

Just bury the corpse already. jesus.

you know i still use aol, at least for email. been like 15 years since i got that email address and it turns out i am still to lazy to make another

America

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the average broadband speed in the U.S. is 5.1Mbps (down) in 2009.

the average in south korea is 20.6mbps.

in Japan its 15.8mbps

we are, i believe, 23rd on the list. and we invented the Internet. the telcos and cable companies have decided that they will limit the speed so they can keep prices high. alot of dark fiber laying around unused. aint' Freedom great!


speedmatters.org

theinsultabot9000: you know i still use aol, at least for email. been like 15 years since i got that email address and it turns out i am still to lazy to make another


go with google's Gmail. 7.3GB of free storage.

Mugato: wee: Mugato: Who the fark still has AOL?

You know, half of the people in the US have below average IQs...

In the Dark Times I worked tech support for AOL (it was that or gay porno and I'm too skinny for gay porno). So yes, people are stupid. The customers almost as stupid as the people who ran AOL tech support.

You mean to tell me that a bitter, sarcastic techie with a habit of looking down on everyone worked tech support? I don't believe it for a minute.

Mugato: Who the fark still has AOL?

AOL is repositioning itself as a content provider and ad network. They'll probably be cutting people from the ISP side of their business, but this is still kind of scary

\Worried for his friends who still work at MapQuest

Khellendros: Wow, people here seem to be under the impression that AOL is still a primary internet service provider. That's been a minority of their income for years now. Most of their income is in online media and advertising. In fact, ISP account work is something they've been shrinking and getting rid of for 8 years.

Soooo... what exactly is it that AOL does now?

Linux_Yes: we are, i believe, 23rd on the list. and we invented the Internet. the telcos and cable companies have decided that they will limit the speed so they can keep prices high. alot of dark fiber laying around unused. aint' Freedom great!

Our cell phone system sucks compared to the rest of the civilized world, as well. Don't expect either to change anytime soon, if ever.

/tho, I hear that broadband is even worse in Canada, so hey.

Now that I think about it... if I were in "tinfoil hat" mode, I would say that the high prices/low throughput is a conspiracy between the telecos and cable/satellite companies to make sure that we can't get quality HD streaming through the net. I mean, if that were to happen, why have cable or satellite service? Not to mention, anyone with the cash could get into the broadcasting game, and we can't have that.

But I'm not in "tinfoil hat" mode, so I'm happy, happy.

I had AOL until recently. By recently I mean 2001.

HypnozombieX: I worked there until about the time they got their crappy script software (sherlock) going and canned all the geeks.

AOL has a really bad case of "not-invented-here" syndrome. While I was at MapQuest I heard stories about how they had to rewrite their TRC (the precursor to the Developer Network) using AOLServer ^{(^)}, even though it's written in Tcl and it's virtually impossible to find people with experience.

And then there was the MapQuest blogs I started writing in Movable Type but then had them given to the Weblogs, Inc. folks to write using their platform.

Linux_Yes: theinsultabot9000: you know i still use aol, at least for email. been like 15 years since i got that email address and it turns out i am still to lazy to make another


go with google's Gmail. 7.3GB of free storage.

I agree with Linux. Crazy. The AOL email may be hurting you chances of acquiring a new job. If the HR person for a company is young, they will assume you are an idiot or lack basic computer knowledge if they see an AOL email address. Change ASAP.

Nemo's Brother: I agree with Linux. Crazy. The AOL email may be hurting you chances of acquiring a new job. If the HR person for a company is young, they will assume you are an idiot or lack basic computer knowledge if they see an AOL email address. Change ASAP.

A domain name is $15 a year. Google Apps for that domain is totally free. You get the benefits of GMail and the professionalism of your own domain name.

fury211: Just bury the corpse already. jesus.

Hey, K-mart still exists. Big companies die hard. Even zombie circuit city and zombie compusa are around.

I havent had AOL in a couple years, but if its still like it was then the only use for AOL is picking up sluts in the chat rooms.

Overall I prefer yahoo, but its nearly useless for chat rooms. Its mostly spam bots and men.

Mugato: Who the fark still has AOL?

Engadget along with its sister sites are AOL owned

My parents are still on it - even though they have broadband through another company. I guess my mom still spends time in the chat rooms and maintains contact with a large number of close online friends she's built up over the years. I guess there are people who never really made the switch to AIM, then to ICQ, then to MySpace, then to Facebook.

/hard to believe we hooked it up damn near 20 years ago (wow).
//had it on our first PC: Gateway 486/DX33

Linux_Yes:the average broadband speed in the U.S. is 5.1Mbps (down) in 2009, the average in south korea is 20.6mbps and in Japan its 15.8mbps

Hey you, Ric Romero wants to explain population density vs land mass vs economic viability to you since you seem to be as clueless about it as you are about operating systems.

Didn't know they were still around.

wee: Mugato: Who the fark still has AOL?

You know, half of the people in the US have below average IQs...

Well we know where you stand...

/MEDIAN

Sultan Of Herf: I havent had AOL in a couple years, but if its still like it was then the only use for AOL is picking up sluts in the chat rooms

I did that, good times!!