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Viscosity 
I hated AOL and switched to a local dial – up within a few months.
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You can still hear that voice though can’t you? “Welcome! You’ve got mail! File’s done! Goodbye!”
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I was a “Yahoo” girl back in the day!!
We’ve come a long way James!
ROFL Sherri-Ellen (BellaSita Mum) & **purrss** BellaDharma
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And that email sesh was followed by a game of mine sweeper I bet ;)… I still use my AOL to sign in to Apple!📧
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I’ve got a Yahoo address and a Hotmail address floating around! #InternetArchaeology
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Relics!
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Oh, I remember that voice! I’d be in the middle of something when AOL would decide to quit. Out of nowhere would come “GOODBYE!” and I’d be offline. There would be a few Anglo-Saxon comments, as I recall.
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And you still had a floppy disk drive built into your hard drive!!! 😀
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Yes I did! Good eye, you can just barely see the edge of it in that picture! 😁
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Those were the good old days…cough, cough!
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The monitor looks familiar 🙂 Gosh, 30 years ago…
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Hard to believe! Apparently people are buying old CRTs now for playing retro video games. Of course I didn’t find out about that until after we had gotten rid of all our old monitors and TV sets …
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Truth be told, retro computer games have a charm of their own. If it isn’t only for reliving the good old times… Shame, I understand your upset.
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