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Re:AOL Pretends to Be the Internet by davely on Thursday September 07, 2023 @02:14AM (#37415341)
Hah! I remember running decompilers (of questionable utility) on various VB-created progs so I could attempt to reverse engineer them.

It definitely got me interested in programming and the early-ish days of being apart of an internet community.

An embarrassing aside: my parents used to give me birthday and Christmas presents that was an allowance of AOL minutes.

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Re:AOL Pretends to Be the Internet by ShadowBanThis01 on Thursday September 07, 2023 @11:28AM (#37420376)
More embarrassing: My parents still pay for AOL. $40 a month. My dad is convinced that he’ll lose the 20,000 E-mails he has there if they stop paying.

And he worked in IT his whole career.

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