http://www.newsfactor.com/news/AOL-Offers-Free-Web-Based-E-Mail/story.xhtml?story_id=013001H40XLA 2gb of space, intergrates with AIM... contender with GMail? post your thoughts
You know, I hear a lot of people bashing AOL, stating that it "sucks", and that it was "made by the devil!" Well, I'm here to say that I do not think it was made by the devil. There's no way possible that the devil could have made something this evil. No, this was made by the devil's boyfriend (contending that the devil is male, obviously). The True Story of AOL When AOL was just getting started, the CEO's at the time phoned up god and asked "We are starting up a new company, and we wish to bring joy and happiness to the world through a unified internet application that will revolutionize the way humans interact. It will be accessible to everybody through free trial periods, and it will be cheap if anybody decides to utilize our services." god replied "I see you have good intentions, and that your heart is pure. But I'm afraid that humanity is imperfect, and that what you are envisioning will not prosper, you will lose money, become bankrupt, and commit suicide. I cannot condemn this kind of future for anybody with hearts as good as yours. Go see the devil, he will help you piece together the perfect program and utilities for your idea. You will prosper and live long my children." So the CEO's went to the devil, and stated their intentions. The devil replied "Ah, that is a very good idea gentlemen, and god was right to send you to me! Unfortunately for what you need to do, I cannot help, I just am not evil enough, nor do I know how to use computers. My boyfriend Sugarpuff will be able to help you though. Go and see him, but remember not to bend over." The devil then pointed the intrepid CEO's down a long hallway, where they happen upon a room covered in blood, decorated with the remains of thousands of the dead, and the entire data centre for AT&T. Here, lying upon a silken bed was Sugarpuff, the devils boyfriend. As before, the CEO's proposed their question to him. In a voice that could only be pure evil - surprisingly sounding a lot like Elton John - Sugarpuff replied "I will help you. Before I do anything though, you must agree to abandon all your hopes and dreams, leaving them by the wayside for your advertising department to pick up and utilize. You have to use my poor coding, my countless errors, my clashing color schemes, my abusive call centre employees, and above all else, make sure never under any circumstances, to ever offer any help. You will be among the richest people alive, and nobody will ever know your names. And even if they do, they'll be unable to do anything about it. Do you agree to my proposal?" The CEO's take a moment, unsure if they wanted to abandon everything they've worked for just so that they could touch all of humanity. After a long debate between them, they agree. "Good," said Sugarpuff, "I'll get started on the Compu-rape-o-matic right away, as that will be the backbone of your software installation. Go now and enjoy your rewards, your endless profit, your complete sense of control, while still having none. Eat your cake and drink your beer, for all of humanity will know the name AOL, and forever will they lament it. It will be great." So, you see now that no matter what AOL creates, it will never be good, and that it has been designed with the idea in mind for you to hate it and stay away from it if you have even a slight bit of sense. This is so that when all the sinner AOL kids are killed in the apocalypse, the rest of us whom have hated the most evil program ever can live in a beautiful world filled with peace and plentiful hardware for all. Wow, I really need to get a hobby...
That story sums it up right there. The devil is a homo and his boyfriend created aol's evilness. Funnyest thing to happen to aol was about 6 months ago. They came out with some commercials with some people going to the corperate office to ask for spam blocker and what not. But here was the funny part. About a month later, another isp company came out with a commercial with the same set, actors, camera angles and an exact copy of the whole thing but the people who came to the office were all like "We're Leaving, See Ya". Best comercial ever lol.
I saw that one.. I just went "OWNED!" at the top of my lungs such a funny commercial and goes to show that anyone intelligent enough to get paid by AOL (versus paying them so you can bend over and take it) has no loyalty to them or their crap advertising. I like how earthlink (I think) has similar commercials but actually has employees arguing over a $1000 bonus (which you get to vote for). Still, wtf is dialup still being advertised for?
Alot of people need dialup for certain software (ie. Corporate banking). For example my mum uses a Barclays bank software and you can only connect to it via 56k.
But that's not dialup for internet access - they'll be dialing direct into the banking network for security reasons. Back On Topic.... I won't be signing up for it... But it's interesting to see they're the first ISP to offer unlimited email storage albeit to paying customers. So a little bonus there for anyone who already pays AOL... fools
I got the e-mail this morning, didnt even know i was signed up for anything aohell related, i for one won't be joining. I just want my isp to realise that they can't compete with so little space and should upgrade to at least 500meg per account. Death
Aol sucks anyway don't know why they bothered jumping in the email bandwagon... If I was an Aol service subscriber I would've prefered they wasted their resources on improving service and the internet interface or whatever it is AOL has ...
I can see it already: AOL users will get confused because they will think yahoos 100MB is larger than AOLs 1GB emails because they think 100mb > 1gb. They will then loose all there customers to elsewhere and aol will go bankrupt. Then people will spam the hell out of the remaining AOL email accounts and make the servers fill up. AOL will loose the few remaining customers and totally disappear off the planet. Wishfull thinking i know
yeah, we all know 100 is bigger than 1 lol I still can't see for the life of me why anyone would ever need that much storage on email, it would take forever to do anything useful and you can just get a CD-R for a quarter.
I was using my Gmail as a backup drive. Got up to 500 megs before i gave up raring everything and uploading 10mb chunks.
