Notices tagged with aol
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#AOL did have the best chat rooms in 1997/1998. I soon left for the local telco, because the nearby AOL dial-up number was often congested in the evenings. (Probably “best” because of the users.) Surprisingly, the telco (at the time called #GTE ) used the same dial-up number, but connections usually completed. And instead of 30-something K, the telco usually got about 50k …
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#Yahoo (now combined with #AOL to form #Oath, a subsidiary of #Verizon) proposes to buy $117.5 million dollars worth of credit monitoring as compensation for people whose information was leaked between 2012 and 2016. . Credit monitoring is almost useless (because alerts happen after the fact; there are more effective services that basically turn off all credit inquiries, preve…
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!XMPP is an open-standard communications protocol based on !XML. Nice for replace !WindowsLiveMessenger, !Yahoo, !AOL !AIM, ... ( !Jabber ).
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This actually isn't why I abandoned #AOL IM—but it's an early symptom of the problem: http://ur1.ca/8ylf0
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Permanently abandoning my #AOL #IM account to celebrat e April 1. If you ever see it live after this point, it's not me. #HHOS.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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Joshua Judson Rosen
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