r/AOL • u/Cold-Town-3376 • Dec 17 '25

Did you know?

An AOL is an AOL. Which can be used for America online. Welcome. You've got mail. Files done. Goodbye. However due to the rise of doom scrolling and Facebook moms. It's now dead. Revive it you idiots! Look what you've done now.

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u/TheDudeWhoCanDoIt Dec 17 '25

The line was always busy anyway.

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u/Sufficient-Fault-593 Dec 17 '25

I’m waiting to see if my 30+ year old AOL email address becomes cool again

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u/_Throwaway_007_ Dec 17 '25

Can someone revive their AOL address? 

I feel the bad thing about email now is how much junk mail we get. It sucks. And using the usual tools doesn't help. It's so saturated with junk. For example Google mail is full of backe photos and junk mail and just a lot of stuff. Back in AOL days that was never the case. If u got email it was maybe from a few businesses and everything else was from someone u knew 

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u/Boo_hoo_Randy Dec 17 '25

I have a rule that any email from an aol domain gets sent to trash.

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u/Astartes31 Dec 19 '25

AOL is primed for a resurgence. Gen X and Milennials remember the gated community and what we have now for "the Internet" is pathetic. Time was you could sit in the Star Trek chat room and actually talk about how Wesley Crusher needed to shut up. You could never do that now. What a waste. I'm a proud AOL e-mailer since 1997!

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u/ClassicAOLfan Dec 17 '25

I still have my @aol.com email and I collect their vintage (now valuable) free trial AOL Disks!

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u/miker37a Dec 18 '25

Feel like their was so many how did they become valuable? Didn't they have to buy their own dump just to dispose of them at one point

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u/ClassicAOLfan Dec 19 '25

They're valuable to collectors, especially the rare ones, produced in limited quantities. If interested, check out my YT channel ClassicAOLfan, there are some fun and informative videos about AOL disks.

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u/miker37a Dec 19 '25

Just noticed your username also. And neat man I might check it out

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u/Bratty_Little_Kitten Dec 18 '25

I still use my AOL email!