From: i.love@spam.com   
      
   On 12/08/2025 13:08, Nyssa wrote:   
   > 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)   
   >   
      
   given the fastest dial up modems are 56 kilobits, it must feel really   
   slow viewing websites that rely on broadband to fling audio or video or   
   Java/SHockwave/Flash at you?   
      
   And downloading software must have taken days?   
      
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