Facebook loses users for the first time

Re:Facebook loses users for the first time by dylan604 on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @10:42PM (#30188304)

Future archaeologists are going to be sifting through the landfills and determine that AOL discs are going to either be some sort of currency or curious religious artifacts.

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Re:Facebook loses users for the first time by eyelidlessness on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @10:52PM (#30188389)

I was on AOL for a big stretch of that time, and those archaeologists wouldn’t be wrong. It was so pervasive that it was a thing of wonder and majesty on the actual www (eg the classic viral Web 1.0 post about getting a license plate starting with ASL).

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Re:Facebook loses users for the first time by Underphil on Thursday February 03, 2022 @12:02AM (#30188910)

I almost remember the exact moment I realised that AOL in fact wasn't the internet but rather some shovelware that sat above it. As soon as I got winsock working I never went back.

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