The 9.0th Circle of AOHell (Optimized!)
As my internet drought continued into its, like, millionth day, I broke down and popped a recently arrived AOL trial disk into the cdrom and signed up for a free 50 days of evil. Like probably everyone who had internet access back in the twentieth century, I started with AOL (version 3!) and learned its awfulness firsthand. Then I went to school, where it was free, and eventually cable modem technology caught up with us.
But now, as the student loan bills pile up in depressing numbers, 50 days of free internet sounds better than the alternative (which is a computer whose only use is creating nice spreadsheets to tell me how much interest my loans are accumulating EVERY DAY). Well anyway, 50 days of AOL, so far has been worse than nothing. I spent about four hours fighting with a terrible installation of version 9.0, finally having to roll back my computer to its previous settings. Since I had already handed over my credit card info, I searched for a version 8 disk which I eventually found (for once, the ubiquitous nature of the AOL free trial disk was a positive). So anyway, perhaps (maybe), we can all expect more than one Cry for Help every week. I feel awful neglecting my little corner of cyberspace for so long.
June 15th, 2004 at 3:26 pm
You could’ve just asked me for a disk, I have like 14 of them sitting on my table in my office. I get a new CD almost once a month even though I haven’t had AOL for 7 years. But like you I started this whole e-mail thing with AOL. AOL is the devil.
August 14th, 2004 at 3:52 pm
It took forever for me to set up 9.0 and Can you believe it I’m having problems and more problems main problem I can’t even get on the web I’m pissed, so now I’m back on 8.0.