PCbanter - View Single Post - analog dialup modem phone number needed for line testing, usa

**BillW50** · May 20th 14, 07:22 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

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On Tue, 20 May 2014 11:47:11 -0500, "BillW50" wrote:

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On Tue, 20 May 2014 06:46:09 -0500, "BillW50"
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I still keep AOL dial up for the same reason. I was on it about an
hour a week ago.
Just be sure you turn off the graphics in your browser and it
moves right along.

Yes, me too. Although I don't think I have signed into AOL in 15
years. Do you have one of those lifetime accounts too?

No I still pay but it is pretty cheap.
Do they give you the life lock and other stuff?
I could get McAfee but that IS a virus.

I don't think I get life lock for free, just McAfee (no, I don't use
it either). The Lifetime account was only offered once back in '87
and it cost $169 (only available to users that had their account for
a year or more). And it wasn't called AOL back then, but known as
Quantum Link (aka Q-Link). I also had CompuServe and The Source
accounts back in that era.

I didn't really get on AOL until Prodigy dropped the classic service
(late 90s) I did play with the free disks. I had so many AOL IDs it
was hard to keep them straight. When I finally decided to pay, it took
20 minutes on the phone to straighten it all out so I could use the
credit card I wanted to use.
Every card I had was tied to a defunct AOL ID.

Wow interesting! I too had Prodigy for about two years in the 90's. I
did have another unlimited AOL accout, because if I ever changed the
other plan from Lifetime, you lost it. So I had that other one for a
while. I think it cost $24.95 or something per month. That Lifetime
account only allowed 5 hours free a month and then cost something like
$3.95 per hour after 5.

I still run AOL 7.0 with scripting turned off so most Email attacks
will just get me a gray box error (along with a lot of real sites)
7 is too dumb to auto open anything.

I was curious about that. I didn't even know that 7.0 still worked? Is
that the oldest one that still works? I haven't used AOL software in 10+
years. I remember v9 being the latest back then. What are they using
now?

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Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Kingston 120GB SSD - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP2