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Buzz Words
Posted on October 9, 2017 by p.j.
Anyone else remember Compuserve?  How about AOL?  I think they still owe me about 800 free hours.  I tend to collect.

12 thoughts on “Buzz Words”

  1. ezdays

    Does anyone remember getting those AOL disks in the mail? Got at least one every week. I wonder how they knew that I had a computer back then, no Internet tracking yet…..

    Oh yeah, I remember buying a Compuserve upgrade, probably one of the few people to ever pay for a browser.

    1. p.j.

      They used to send out those disks all the time. 1000’s of free hours.

  2. the dude

    Compu-suck! I still have a second landline so I can have uninteruptEd Internet accesss. I hate when someone calls and disrupts My Metallica downloads.

    1. p.j.

      Ah, those were the days.

  3. RG2Cents

    You can never go wrong with a ‘just called’ punchline! 😆

    1. p.j.

      It’s the comedic writer’s go-to.

  4. Elf Odin

    Or BIX? GEnie? The Source?

    1. p.j.

      I originally had North delivering a line that mentioned some of those defuncted or lame online sites. I wasn’t sure anyone would know what they were so I changed his line. Should have kept it, because the punchline would have made more sense.

  5. J.P. Keslensky

    I remember printed books, radio and Saturday morning cartoons and breakfast cereals with prizes inside. 🙂

    1. p.j.

      and don’t forget the CrackerJacks with prizes that weren’t some lame sticker or “tatoo.”

  6. Mikey

    Ooooo Compuserve…. back when 64k of RAM was a lot of memory.

    1. p.j.

      Right? And we all thought, “we couldn’t ever need any more than that.”

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