From: Nyssa@logicalinsight.net   
      
   Rich wrote:   
      
   > Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:   
   >> 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   
   >   
   > Which I did for many an AOL 3.5" floppy.  Not for anything   
   > valuable, but for a "copy file X from computer Y to   
   > computer Z" use they worked just fine.   
   >   
   > The CDROM's were only useful to either join AOL (which was   
   > never going to happen) or to make garden scarecrows.   
      
   I made coasters with them.   
      
   Nyssa, who believe it or not is still on dialup (not AOL)   
   and has been for almost 40 years (not the same ISPs)   
      
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