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   Eli the Bearded to ldo@nz.invalid   
   Re: Bye-Bye Dialup USA   
   11 Aug 25 01:12:51   
   
   From: *@eli.users.panix.com   
      
   In comp.misc, Lawrence D'Oliveiro   wrote:   
   > Further to that, 34 years ago puts their start in 1991, before CD-ROM   
   > drives became popular in PCs. I think they were giving out floppy disks   
   > for those first few years.   
   >   
   > Anybody remember seeing an AOL floppy?   
      
   Definitely. Better than CDs because you could just wipe and reuse them.   
      
   https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_1395721   
      
   Elijah   
   ------   
   has maybe ten floppies from that era left, none AOL   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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