The possible end of AOL.

[Chibi Youkai]

You can...but you know, Firefox kinda like...it's just that it's...well, actually it's...it sorta...sucks.

No it does certainly not. Haven't gotten a popup since, which is just brilliant, compared AOL.

[theundeadhero]

My windows XP has a built in pop-up blocker which makes that entire argument null and void. Yay, internet explorer.

[Doomgaze]

Yes AOl has its low points, but is it costly for its features. Does IE have features like spam blocker, AIM stuff, chat rooms, search engines, timers, and parental controlls? Aol may suck, but it make up for it in features.

Leave it to an AOLer to act like IE is an ISP. You can get all those things, most of them free (as in beer and as in ideas) regardless of your ISP. I don't know why people want this bloat in their browsers. Even if you DID, like I said, there's nothing there that is exclusive to AOL.

[Peegee]

AOL's harm is already done. I could draw rather controversial parallels, but instead I'll just spam and say 'omfg aol gone lolol kekekeke'.

Though I doubt this will affect us in any actual way...which is sad because I want to celebrate some sort of victory

[nik0tine]

After all of the sh*t aol handed to me... Im glad they are shutting down. I don't ever want to see them profit again. That is of course, a ridiculous dream.

[Tokki Wartooth]

Thank God. I hope they take AIM with them too.

[escobert]

Thank God. I hope they take AIM with them too.

NOOOO!

[Shlup]

know what else sux?









AOL.

xD

h8 aol

[crono_logical]

Actually, I'd rather AOL wasn't shutting down - it means the large lower-intelligence Internet userbase won't be concentrated in one place any more making it harder to discriminate against them

[SomethingBig]

Does IE have features like spam blocker, AIM stuff, chat rooms, search engines, timers, and parental controlls? Aol may suck, but it make up for it in features.

You can always disable Javascript functions with IE. You can also get a better IM program(Trillian, which has AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, IRC, and something else on it and allows you to be signed on on all 4 at one time) in less than 5 minutes. Nay, less than 3 minutes. IE also has parental controls.

I did what Optium did and I switched to Mozilla and man am I glad. Greatest browser ever.

[Takara]

*brings out the torches and the pitchforks*

BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURN AOL!

*cackles*

*eyeshift*

[Polaris]

is aol that bad?

[Lindy]

I've got to ask though, and how many of you have thought of this...

What will happen to all the 8-year old AOLer who assume they own the internet? Will they just go a name/brand shift and be ressurected as something else? Or was it AOL itself that caused their...problems?

Also, does anyone else remember when AOL was totally banned on #eoff?

Good times, good times

[Loony BoB]

Also, does anyone else remember when AOL was totally banned on #eoff?

Haha, yeah, I remember that. Wasn't it just AOL-jIRC users, though?

[crono_logical]

I'm sure it was all AOL, since I still have my #eoff script to auto-exempt certain AOL users