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I have been using BBS systems before the Internet came into popular use (since 1984) and I got onto the Internet around 1994 using an email service called Juno and finally got regular "browser" access in 1995 with a service called Erols - a video rental outfit that was reaching out into a new field. Erols did a great job.

We have noted over the years that AOL has been using nasty tactics like forcing downloads to users with slow machines on start up (1990's and beyond) without asking the user before engaging the download. This particularly ugly technique would lock up a user's computer many minutes or even lock up the computer before the user could spend a minute checking email. It is too late for AOL to change its ways, so let's just document its bad behavior and hope this juggernaut will mend its ways!

Their competitor was AOL. I never did use AOL, but had been fixing AOL infested computers of friends and family for years. I quickly learned that AOL was forcing its software onto every computer, without asking if that was ok, effectively taking up to or over an hour. And this happened almost daily. The promise of the Internet in the mid-to-late 1990's was the same as today - to save us time. So while I had this with Erols at the beginning of the days of the Internet, AOL was breaking that promise.

AOL continued to break that promise into the 21st century and as far as I know, they still do today. They latched onto an network architecture that forces software onto the users computer. The opposite approach has been a generally accepted "best practice" since 1998. I still see new companies attaching themselves to this archaic and wrong approach to Internet Technology. It's an unethical practice in my opinion.

So, let's have a little fun at the expense of the best known violator of best practices! Here are some "AOL love" sites that keep the faith!

Fun AOL Facts! - anti-aol.org has disappeared.

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