This commercial just aired last week in North Korea.

He forgot to log out.. after he got back from the game he owed AOL $20,000.00

"Get off the Internet I need to use the phone" 😂😂😂👌

10 hours on AOL was enough to visit 1 website

"So how do you get America Online?" "Easy! They cram a disc in your mailbox every other day."

"I can even send email on the internet". I love it!

AOL will always hold a very special place in my heart. It's where I met my husband 22 years ago. We met in a chatroom one day in June of 2000 by total fate. It turned out that we only lived just over 3 hours apart (within reasonable driving distance), with me living in central Maine and him in Boston. We had a great deal in common as he was a paramedic and I had just become an EMT, which was how we initially connected and bonded. I was only 18 and had just graduated from high school and he had just turned 30, so there was an 11-year age gap, but we instantly connected. Instant messaging on AOL turned into hours long phone calls. Then, about a week after we started talking, he made the trip to meet me and we spent several amazing days together in Acadia National Park and almost instantly fell in love. The rest is history. We had an amazing 22 years together and were rarely ever apart. He was my soulmate and the love of my life, not to mention my rock. If it hadn't been for AOL, we never would have crossed paths and met. Sadly, he passed away exactly 1 month and 2 days ago very suddenly and unexpectedly and I miss him so, so much. 😥 Thank you, AOL, for leading me to the love of my life.

... And that was the last time he ever left the house.

Can you imagine how life changing this was for the era? It’s genuinely amazing how far we’ve come with information technology in such a short amount of time

I remember the first time I saw the internet, also in 1995...was in high school, and one of my friends called me excited, saying she had something on her computer where she could talk to people across the world by typing conversations etc! I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it, wow seeing this brings back memories lol. How far we've come!!!!

"You get 10 free hours to check it out!" He forgot to mention that more then half of that 10 hours will be connecting to the Internet and loading screens.

AOL was such a nice company. I wasn't even a customer and yet they'd send me a free coffee coaster every month.....

"Screw taking my kids to the library and letting them search for the dinosaur books they want to study. These two pages of random Dino facts should suffice!"

Let's get this straight: your mom's birthday tomorrow your trip is next week and your planning these both now? Forget the AOL tutorial! Let's talk about basic responsibility!

I called that number and was disappointed to find out aol no longer offer 10 free hours of web surfing. I should of called sooner like in the early 90's.

the struggle, these new age kids will never know

That guy was not finishing up with Kayaking friends. He was trying to click and hide the porn site really quick before his friend walked over...

That actually seemed like a legit conversation between two guys. Not like the crappy infomercials and whack commercials of today.

When he mentioned the live chat and that he met his kayaking buddies on there it made me so happy and sad at the same time. Oh how I miss those AIM days so much!

Remember getting those damn CDs in the mail? I think I still have some LOL

I remember watching porn on AOL using real player. 8 second long clips at a time. I found 1 minute long videos from time to time that took 15 minutes to download. It was so high tech.

The phone number no longer works

As a former AOL tech I can say AOL was usually decent to its employees...but shit to its customers. All of the nightmares you've heard? True. Every one. And we witnessed them first hand sometimes. Then again, some of the customers were just despicable human beings too. Made our lives a fucking nightmare. But most of the time, we felt the customer's pain. More than once, a techie would fly into a rage over the shit the customer went through, and have to be calmed down. The frequent disconnections and shit? The technicians at HQ. They'd shut batches of connection servers off to restart them and clear memory. Customers experienced this as a random "Goodbye!" :( Just terrible... So...yeah, "AO Hell" worked as a moniker from both sides.

"How do I get America Online?" By using one of the thousands of disks they sent you every year.

The “kayaking buddies” group gradually evolved into Grindr.

"I can even send email on the internet" Umm, as opposed to sending email via the postman?

I love how this commercial gives off the "random commercial you see on TV at 5:00am" vibe.

So that was Internet 20 years ago

And just how did he order flowers and airline tickets without even asking his friend for credit card info, address to send to, location to travel to...I could go on and on lol!! Seriously, I miss these simple days.

10 Free Hours, Great! with Internet speeds in 1995 you can book a flight in only 5 hours!

This conversation is so unrealistic. No mention of porn?

I want these days back

Every part of this is awesome. The ad. The internet two decades later being advanced enough to show a younger generation its rudimentary beginnings. The younger generation opining on what they see.

I never shopped on AOL because I was a kid, but I was addicted to the AOL chat rooms.

I forgot how we had to pay for internet by the hour back then. Wow... I'd be broke if that were the case today!

I was 23 in '95. I remember seeing this commercial and thinking "who is going to believe all this stuff can be done on a computer!" And then, ten years of being a chat room addict, gosh time flies...

"Plane ticket's ordered. Now, let's look up dinosaurs!" LOL so dorky

Here come the dinosaurs

Now you can talk to your kayaking friends while you’re kayaking.

This is what I felt like showing people Reddit back in 2010

I can't count how many times did my pop yelled at me about being on the phone line....LMAO

I well remember seeing this commercial and having no idea what they were talking about. Yet by 1996 I was using AOL.

For a long time AOL's free trial was the only way I could get Internet. Every month I'd make the call to cancel and like clockwork they'd tell me they'd give me a free month to reconsider. Next month the sacred ritual would commence once again.

I remember they used to bill bill bill for those hours.

If I had been alive in 1995, I definitely would have called that phone number.

now look at today. its a fucking warzone

'So how do you get America Online?' 'Just check your mailbox. They will send you enough start up disks each week to shingle your house'

I enjoy seeing these old commercials but at the same time they kind of make me feel old too.

AOL brought me porn when I was too young to buy porn. Thanks AOL.

Even though I was a kid in 1995, it's one of my favorite years to date.

'The Facebook' commercial brought me here

"Limit one per household." I'm like boy did that change in a few more years. AOL disks were on everything from magazines to cereal boxes in the late 90's.

The Facebook sent me here.

This was a fantastic time AOL 3.0 Cybersex, chatting with random girl you end up liking a lot, but never meeting, fighting in chat rooms, the laughs, the games (slingo), playing solitaire feverishly waiting to get online to hangout with virtual buddies across the world. Aol you'll be missed dearly.

It's amazing how we are watching something that they consider "revolutionary" with a smartphone in the palm of our hands.

I met my husband of 21 years on Love@aol. Still going strong! Thank you aol ❤

Remember the photos were loaded as .art? JPEGs took too long to load.

Wow...its crazy how much we take for granted

There are few better ways to convey to people what it was like when the internet was just starting to become a thing than to let them see this commercial.

Remember the AOL chat rooms? Loved them!

anyone missing hearing "you've got mail"?

I remember when they used to send me floppy disks for the Windows 3.11 versions and eventually the Windows 95 versions of AOL. And they had no idea that I had a Mac at the time..... so I just erased them and formatted them for Mac, and used them to store my old games on them for next to nothing.... it was great! And then they switched over to distributing AOL on CD. Awww..... :( That's alright though, by then I moved to using Zip 100 disks. hahahaha!

Oh man, this took me immediately back to my childhood. I remember the Kids Only page, which I thought was so cool. Then the craziness of the chat rooms and hoping you were actually talking to another teenager and not a creeper. Good times.

The hell kind of connection he had? Those browser windows popped instantly. 0:32

can we just acknowledge how incredibly ironic it is that we are watching a commercial for the internet.......on the internet

This looks awesome. I'm definitely getting this. AOL Internet subscription here I come.

Three years after that, everybody and their mother would end up with an AOL free trial cd in their mailbox and they just kept on coming until the mid 2000s.

The Internet - A dark carnival of humanity's most wrathful impulses!

I'm old

Guy: "ready for the game?" 10 seconds later, same guy Guy: "I can't go to the game"

god i remember when you couldn’t check the mailbox without having one or two of the aol cd’s in there.

The AOL dialer was the only software that came on 660 million CD-ROMs.

"Where's Mike?" "Still Downloading."

If he met his kayaking buddies in chat, I have to wonder what they're into besides kayaking.

They wish the internet was that fast back then lol. I used to wait like 4 mins for Webster to load for homework

First time I operate a computer was back in early 1992 in one of my first jobs, first time I enter the Internet was back in 1999 in an Internet Cafe.

I think most of the commenters were born after this commercial was made...

Came here from the Facebook commercial. ^_^

Man nostalgia. Such a long time ago. Oh how far we have come.

THIS VIDEO IS ALSO 11 YEARS OLD TIME FLIES

Still faster than Internet explorer.

I remember using IM-Bomber.

“How long have you had it?” “About a week.” It would take a week just to connect to AOL on dialup back in the 90s

My mom and my dad met on here thanks AOL for me existing

I remeber when i was in the grocery store at age 5 and these AOL Cd´s where there to take home i had like 20 of them but never got internet :

Illuminati confirmed 1:13

When I ask someone for their email and it turns out to be an AOL address, a little piece inside of me says, "Bless your heart."

This is a piece of history. turn this into an NFT

10 free hours. DAYUM.

I gotta check this out ...

Had to lead my composition class in an article about email which was from the late 90s/early 2000s, we showed this video and laughed profusely.

My mom was fresh out of medical school in the mid 90s, and lived with her mother until she went to join the Military in 1997. She remembers her mom would get very unhappy with anyone using AOL for a long time because it was so expensive back then.

i miss those days

When I joined AOL in late 97, it was like the only legit thing on the Internet. How far we've come since then. I'm surprised AOL didn't try to offer their own broadband service to try to compete with the phone and cable companies.

It's 2024 and my nerd dad self just got excited for the internet. . . Can't wait to print out those dinosaur facts!

A perfect video indeed

AOL should change their name to LOL

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST... AMERICA ONLINE IS THE MOST GOD DAMNED AMAZING THING I'VE EVER FUCKING SEEN

Yes and 26 yrs on he's still waiting for DSL connection..

“Limit one per household” Seems like every week we would get those 3.5” floppy disks or CD’s