From: Nyssa@logicalinsight.net   
      
   David LaRue wrote:   
      
   > Nyssa  wrote in   
   > news:107farq$38alr$1@dont- email.me:   
   >   
   >> 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)   
   >   
   > Hi Nyssa,   
   >   
   > Nice to see you are still around!   
   >   
   > David   
      
   :)   
      
   Back at ya!   
      
   Nyssa, who does very little online that needs more   
   bandwidth, so dialup is cost effective for the amount   
   of usage   
      
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