Featured on HBO's "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" (6/21/15)! Television commercial for American Online, which came at the birth of consumer internet usage ("dot com boom") in the mid-90's. (1995)
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@future.cadaver8 жыл бұрын
This commercial just aired last week in North Korea.
@joeruggiero94288 жыл бұрын
hahahahaha
@kimmyymmik7 жыл бұрын
lmao
@andrewp82847 жыл бұрын
schrekt 'em
@thelitgreendude75757 жыл бұрын
Jessica Ingenbrandt it should be nkol
@martial_matt6 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂
@jrocco367 жыл бұрын
He forgot to log out.. after he got back from the game he owed AOL $20,000.00
@laurenj42887 жыл бұрын
Jayrocco Sechsunddreißig lol ' don't burn up my hours!!!'
@laurenj42887 жыл бұрын
Jayrocco Sechsunddreißig lol ' don't burn up my hours!!!'
@born_again_torinos7 жыл бұрын
You made me laugh out loud. That doesn't happen very often these days. Well played sir.
@CinematikNupe7 жыл бұрын
That...was the funniest comment ive seen all week. lmao
@ThrewRedButter6 жыл бұрын
I laughed too hard at this comment
@kittiia.84388 жыл бұрын
"Get off the Internet I need to use the phone" 😂😂😂👌
@user-gr8ev3xf1y6 жыл бұрын
Emo Anie I remember those days
@CarolinaHunter8646 жыл бұрын
No mom....im chatting with hotgirl1616.
@justinpettit34326 жыл бұрын
Emo Anie Facts
@space28035 жыл бұрын
even when DSL came out when the phone rang your connection still slowed down a lot
@cflo13865 жыл бұрын
My mom missed so many calls.
@Wildchildinc8 жыл бұрын
10 hours on AOL was enough to visit 1 website
@JACKOTACO7 жыл бұрын
You actually had Encrata for that.
@carbonunit6 жыл бұрын
There was only 2 actual websites back then.
@theindustryonblastadmin49646 жыл бұрын
JACKOTACO Encarta Encyclopedia
@86eastbay4 жыл бұрын
56K yes.
@johnfoltz81834 жыл бұрын
And download half a song
@3pointZERO10 жыл бұрын
"So how do you get America Online?" "Easy! They cram a disc in your mailbox every other day."
@MrTree17799 жыл бұрын
Former AOL Tech support guy here: What a nightmare the disks were... AOL had no idea who was getting a disk until you signed up. We just sent the disks, without addresses, in bulk to USPS. It was USPS who printed addresses onto the disks from THEIR database, and then sent them to you. Since the disks were "Bulk Rate US Postage Paid", USPS was (by law) required to send them. Shit... We tech call center people HATED getting the "Stop sending me disks, assholes!" calls. Why? Cause WE got the fucking things too.
@Watcher32236 жыл бұрын
Actually, I thought it was great when AOL would send free floppy diskettes of their software. You could format them and use them for whatever you needed, saving you the cost of buying blank disks. But then AOL switched to CD-ROMs, which ended that freebie. Of course, now we've got USB thumb drives, SD cards, and smartphones. When you think about it, it's kind of amazing how much data storage and processing power we can easily tote along in the course of our daily lives. We've also got the cloud, but I don't trust storing my data there at all.
@PromotingTheBeat5 жыл бұрын
lol sucks about the people who were annoyed with the disks in the mail but, it was a lady who came on to AOL at that time who thought of that idea. That is what made AOL into the powerhouse it became, all because of that disk idea.
@SakuraStardust5 жыл бұрын
They where also at grocery store checkouts 👌🏻👌🏻 I also remember seeing one that said "AOL 2.0" and my 8 year old brain was like "Oh, they're making them better every time they send them! That's why we get so many!"
@WarrenWebber4 жыл бұрын
My mom said the discs made pretty handy mini frisbees !
@HowieIsaacks8 жыл бұрын
"I can even send email on the internet". I love it!
@PANZERFAUST904 жыл бұрын
as opposed to the post office lol
@MarshmallowHope2 жыл бұрын
thanks howie
@johnfoltz8183 Жыл бұрын
Woohoo! This information superhighway things sounds neat! Can't wait to see if it has potential!
@jrwheeler81 Жыл бұрын
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.
@cameroncole06 Жыл бұрын
So sorry for your loss!
@cesiumion Жыл бұрын
😢
@KarlosFirst-1 Жыл бұрын
Ohy God so sorry to hear that it is a very beautiful story wow, God bless you and your hole entire family 🙏❤️
@aolmsn Жыл бұрын
I'm sorry about your husband :(
@f612CreatorsPodcast Жыл бұрын
😭😭😭😭😭😭
@jzimm10758 жыл бұрын
... And that was the last time he ever left the house.
@davemattia3 жыл бұрын
A few weeks later he was arrested by the FBI because his "kayaking buddies" were a secret group of pedophiles.
@skaterat33223 жыл бұрын
Lol
@chrismarshva2 жыл бұрын
Some 1999 E commerce commercial to add stuff to a home She. There's a lot of love here but we can fill this space He. I'm gonna get me a bed
@DeathswingKettlebell2 жыл бұрын
Lmaooo
@Jmcsj022 жыл бұрын
Priceless..
@comradepingu63943 жыл бұрын
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
@one7decimal2eight2 жыл бұрын
Imagine? I lived it. It was truly an amazing time to be able to experience the infancy of the internet. These have been the biggest moments in my life when it comes to computers... Early AOL chatrooms 1997 Burning custom made CDs 1998 AOL like this commercial 2000 Napster music downloading 2000 High speed internet 2001 Then everything else
@oktavianzamoyski9809 Жыл бұрын
Invented by the military and used to facilitate communication between researchers. Today: used for watching TikTok and porn.
@jo-lv9iz Жыл бұрын
exactly
@HaakonAnderson9 ай бұрын
@@oktavianzamoyski9809pretty sure it's still used by the military and researchers
@jackilynpyzocha6627 ай бұрын
I miss the excitement, but not the waiting, the sound of the modem and having the phone line tied up, or the insomnia!
@jenniferoneal1903 жыл бұрын
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!!!!
@fromryuk7785 Жыл бұрын
Thats how i felt too, these days i end up putting a lot on ignore. Sad really how things change.
@ricardopinto442 Жыл бұрын
@@fromryuk7785 Oh god, I remember the first time I went on KZfaq in 2006 still using dial up (I lived with my grandparents shut up) took 20 minutes to load a 3 minute video. I do miss the "Welcome, you've got mail" guy?
@lazyboy87769 жыл бұрын
"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.
@houstonhelicoptertours10063 жыл бұрын
No.
@one7decimal2eight2 жыл бұрын
Wasn't like that at all.
@aolmsn Жыл бұрын
@@one7decimal2eight There wasn't wi-fi in 1995. There was 28k dial-up, and it was FUCKING SLOW.
@ricardopinto442 Жыл бұрын
@@aolmsn Oh god, I remember the first time I went on KZfaq in 2006 still using dial up (I lived with my grandparents shut up) took 20 minutes to load a 3 minute video. I do miss the "Welcome, you've got mail" guy
@tigrrtom4 ай бұрын
@@aolmsn Dig it. And web pages back then weren't as graphic-intensive as they are nowadays!
@BobbieBees9 жыл бұрын
AOL was such a nice company. I wasn't even a customer and yet they'd send me a free coffee coaster every month.....
@Curi0u50ne2 жыл бұрын
Lol I used mine as coasters too….but for scented 🕯😂
@johnfoltz8183 Жыл бұрын
Or two 3D printed save buttons.
@jay21281 Жыл бұрын
Lol 😄👍
@mithcee Жыл бұрын
@@johnfoltz8183 That took me a second haha
@remixchild2 ай бұрын
Kinda funny how they sabotage themselves
@demo23823 жыл бұрын
"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!"
@donniebrasco13643 ай бұрын
Language watch your cussing
@DelilaSloanАй бұрын
@donniebrasco1364 are you kidding? There was no cussing in his comment and who r u to tell people what they can say?
@johnerikson70947 жыл бұрын
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!
@HQLBvideo5 жыл бұрын
john erikson this may be the funniest comment I’ve ever read! 😂
@atticusoftelephone4 жыл бұрын
ok boomer
@chevyman2883 жыл бұрын
Kailer Gibes don’t worry it’s the google effect..kids seem really smart now days an think they are as well but when they are asked a question an don’t know the answer an don’t have a phone ..there stupid ..lol..attic telephone
@ricardoreporterkiro7news7213 жыл бұрын
hi my name is Ricardo pinto remember that you don’t call 📱 silence Komo 4 news
@jekll2 жыл бұрын
You're a father!
@balabay7710 жыл бұрын
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.
@space28036 жыл бұрын
Shit i was born in 95'. Should've started crying for that free 10 hours the second i came out of that womb.
@projectnerdvana28205 жыл бұрын
LMFAOOOOOOOOO
@OikPoinFive5 жыл бұрын
A SNAKE IN ME BOOT incess
@BossBen13 жыл бұрын
I have a emachines with aol Bullshit number disconnected tho
@ricardopinto442 Жыл бұрын
@@space2803 Oh god, I remember the first time I went on KZfaq in 2006 still using dial up (I lived with my grandparents shut up) took 20 minutes to load a 3 minute video. I do miss the "Welcome, you've got mail" guy?
@GETLifestyle8 жыл бұрын
the struggle, these new age kids will never know
@TheTeamdigitek8 жыл бұрын
I was born in 2001 will I understand
@abztraktt64038 жыл бұрын
+INDEK FINGERBOARDS 2001? High speed internet was out lol
@YungMono08 жыл бұрын
Acting like we even want to know fuck that shit with long ass load times
@Zeriel007 жыл бұрын
you guys where lucky, I had to record HBO at night in old VHS tapes in hopes of finding some boobs or something xD
@gradygilchrist49237 жыл бұрын
+Nepu-Tech USA. Lol Hitchhiker series was gold mine for boobs back then.
@1up177 жыл бұрын
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...
@xD-pi1uh7 жыл бұрын
BBPhotography2012 omg
@DavidStephenDoucette7 жыл бұрын
did they even have sites like that back then?
@RetroCheater815 жыл бұрын
he probably spent 3 hours downloading that 30 second clip aint no way hes closing that out.
@OikPoinFive5 жыл бұрын
Steve Kay he was in cinemax porn softcore movie xalled elke
@runner123ification2 жыл бұрын
He did look a bit alarmed when his friend walked in
@LolicOnion11 жыл бұрын
That actually seemed like a legit conversation between two guys. Not like the crappy infomercials and whack commercials of today.
@kota6872 жыл бұрын
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!
@moonflower66072 жыл бұрын
if you don't mind telling me may i ask what was it like to experience that era?
@ColonelBragg Жыл бұрын
AIM was the shit back in the day
@trippdocta28 Жыл бұрын
@@moonflower6607 you would have just had to been there. During this time kids actually went outside to play and ride bikes. No one was in a rush like they are today....life was slow but simple. People actually spent time with their families. Christmas felt like it took forever and that made it more enjoyable. People were actually nicer ....the internet was just a thing to were you weren't obligated to live on it like today. We had choices
@Lokigard Жыл бұрын
@@moonflower6607 - Early days of the internet were great. Trolls were banned on message boards, but evading a ban was as simple as disconnecting and dialing back up (dynamic IP). There was minimal advertising, although the early era of pop-ups was horrible. Chatting was crazy fun. You met randoms and people actually did not like giving away personal details immediately. It usually took a few days of chatting to get a name. A few weeks for a grainy pic. And a last name? Maybe eventually. FB killed online privacy. Now everyone is about the likes and stalkers be damned. It went from being a fun and useful tool to today... The epicenter of our lives where all gatherings is just everyone on their phones. Tragic.
@jaguar3217 Жыл бұрын
@@Lokigard miss the days of good ole' forumz 2010 is where it went to sh!t
@staceycarmody99708 жыл бұрын
Remember getting those damn CDs in the mail? I think I still have some LOL
@latinolawdog50676 жыл бұрын
It was hard to forget, considering they came every day it seemed
@PANZERFAUST904 жыл бұрын
They had them at electronic stores as well, like Circuit City and Best Buy.
@Mr.Obongo3 жыл бұрын
I still have all the cd’s and floppy discs they’d send lol. I was a kid remember being 6 years old popping the floppy in trying to install it myself lol
@HardKore52502 жыл бұрын
Why not use Intervening Explorer or another web bowser?
@ricardopinto442 Жыл бұрын
Oh god, I remember the first time I went on KZfaq in 2006 still using dial up (I lived with my grandparents shut up) took 20 minutes to load a 3 minute video. I do miss the "Welcome, you've got mail" guy?
@AdoreYouInAshXI8 жыл бұрын
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.
@JunKurosu8 жыл бұрын
Hahahaha
@IVR027 жыл бұрын
Now that's what I call "jacking off with sophistication"!
@Nightweaver17 жыл бұрын
Fucking Real Player. I hated that shit, they conned me into buying their stupid software 20 years ago.
@Wafflepudding7 жыл бұрын
Ah the days of "Heather Brooke", "Dawn Allison", Wifey and Danny Ashe, where you had to WAIT for your hooters dammit.
@PeterB95 жыл бұрын
real player, that was truly a software nightmare.
@AverageAsianMe9 жыл бұрын
The phone number no longer works
@dogman159 жыл бұрын
Thank you for testing it.
@Steelburgh9 жыл бұрын
How the hell am I supposed to get online then? My kids have a dinosaur project due tomorrow!
@anonimenkolbas13059 жыл бұрын
It's the National Telemarketing Company now or something.
@thegamingchef33048 жыл бұрын
Lol I tried to call a Sega Genesis tips line not to long ago.
@falconnewsnetwork83168 жыл бұрын
+AverageAsianMe I checked about a year ago our local numbers still work. I had trouble connecting, but I was using a VOIP phone line. I was basically accessing the internet through a phone line attached to the internet. Internet inside phone inside internet!
@MrTree17799 жыл бұрын
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.
@AverageAsianMe9 жыл бұрын
What about random backwards messages in blood that would appear on my monitor...and on my wall...and my dreams?
I was an AOL Guide / Chat host for a few years and was always nice to everyone.. til they got rid of me for being too nice (my managers wanted me to really treat some people like scum and I refused to) I then did a 360 and became an AOL hacker, hacking accounts, kicking people offline with Bots. Had about 45 accounts at once one time -- ah the fun days of AOL before Time Warner ruined it. They could have been Google
@e.m.58689 жыл бұрын
How fast AOL failed was truth to its ignorance. If it wasn't bought out, AOL would be nothing more than a Wikipedia article.
@MrTree17799 жыл бұрын
I joined AOL in 2002 and left in 2007. In that time, they went from 30 M subscribers (a high), to 1-2 million, with people cancelling and fleeing to other providers daily. It was sad to watch, but not a shock. AOL was so entrenched in the Internet of the 90s (closed systems, contained browsing, monthly subscriptions for access) that when stand-alone browsers, cable/DSL, and non-subscrption email became the norm, they were totally unable to adapt.
@robs52525 жыл бұрын
"How do I get America Online?" By using one of the thousands of disks they sent you every year.
@giovannirastrelli98213 жыл бұрын
The “kayaking buddies” group gradually evolved into Grindr.
@davidserlin80972 жыл бұрын
Best comment ever.
@CamilleonProductions10 жыл бұрын
"I can even send email on the internet" Umm, as opposed to sending email via the postman?
@MrGencyExit649 жыл бұрын
As opposed to using some proprietary network. Back before the Internet was mainstream, there were dozens of online services like Genie, Prodigy, CompuServe, AOL, etc. Most of them could not send messages back and forth because they were completely separate networks. It was a huge freaking deal when some of those online services started offering Internet in the mid- to late 90's. It was like the invention of the interstate highway; you weren't stuck traveling to places exclusively in your own state anymore.
@TheSkully3438 жыл бұрын
+TARDIS Tales Remember, it was the 90s. I don't think computers or internet usage was anywhere near as common in 1995 as it is now.
@collinsanders76 жыл бұрын
MrGencyExit64 Hello, fellow old person!
@simpsonfan136 жыл бұрын
About 40% of what you see today, not everyone had a computer, and most families that did, usually only had one. By the early 2000's that number had fucking exploded though.
@BretLeduc6 жыл бұрын
They have the internet on computers now!
@TheRandomGuy570Ай бұрын
I love how this commercial gives off the "random commercial you see on TV at 5:00am" vibe.
@KimionTM8 жыл бұрын
So that was Internet 20 years ago
@MadBulik8 жыл бұрын
+Hurriname Wait. Wasn't '95 five years ago?
@lk16028 жыл бұрын
+Eryk Pawlik FIVE???? More like 21.
@oprahwinfrey8786 жыл бұрын
Well they left out a buuuuunch of stuff. Like, lost connections. Need a seperate phone line to place calls (unless you could afford a cell phone and it’s minutes). It could take 5-15 min to load a single page and then discover half the page currupted.
@yoshibloxgaming91245 жыл бұрын
@TJTaco 24
@PANZERFAUST904 жыл бұрын
the Internet*
@estew67647 жыл бұрын
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.
@rsls1018 жыл бұрын
10 Free Hours, Great! with Internet speeds in 1995 you can book a flight in only 5 hours!
@rsls1017 жыл бұрын
+Aymer de Valence woooaah!! no need to lose it, it was JUST A JOKE!BITTER BITCH!!!
@PANZERFAUST904 жыл бұрын
And that's only one way lol You'd need the other five hours if you wanna get back xD
@LapisGarter9 жыл бұрын
This conversation is so unrealistic. No mention of porn?
@PaddyMacNasty9 жыл бұрын
George T. "kayaking buddies"
@NewYorkS4U8 жыл бұрын
+George T. What's ironic to me is that this is an infomercial to promote internet, and yet internet destroyed infomercials. ; ) But at least AOL helped us get rid of that dreadful WOW! software CompuServe had.
@sha370z8 жыл бұрын
+George T. was they Age 18 in 1995 to do porn ? And what where there Names ? And who upload it to internet ?
@JonasClark8 жыл бұрын
+George T. Well, how many people today say to their buddy, "I just love this terabyte drive I got. I can hold so much more PORN!" We all know what people do online... but how often do you tell everyone?
@Herpy10008 жыл бұрын
+Jonas Clark All the time. No joke.
@pantegohummus82158 жыл бұрын
I want these days back
@jeromeholloman80897 жыл бұрын
mee too
@VernePhilleas6 жыл бұрын
same here. AOL was like my first taste of freedom. I remember being all nervous exploring the net in a browser outside the screen of AOL.
@iKingRPG5 жыл бұрын
Yeah aol was my first email
@nonic4vic6005 жыл бұрын
Bish no
@nonic4vic6005 жыл бұрын
I don’t want to call a number on my phone just to go on Snapchat
@rv.96582 жыл бұрын
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.
@zeropointzero2 жыл бұрын
I sure would've liked to see what internet was like in 1822.
@fromryuk7785 Жыл бұрын
@@zeropointzero telegraphs
@mithcee Жыл бұрын
@@fromryuk7785 Ponies
@mhaze2104 жыл бұрын
I never shopped on AOL because I was a kid, but I was addicted to the AOL chat rooms.
@JoshRimer9 жыл бұрын
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!
@Patrick198339 жыл бұрын
I remember it was only AOL that you have to pay by the hour. I had regular dial up internet service back in 95 and we still pay by the month back then too.
@nonic4vic6005 жыл бұрын
Well luckily people back then had the money to do that
Really depended on your service. In '96, the local dial-up companies were selling lifetime passes for about $300.
@scottw6704 Жыл бұрын
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...
@scottmackeen9 жыл бұрын
"Plane ticket's ordered. Now, let's look up dinosaurs!" LOL so dorky
@userrx241179 жыл бұрын
Here come the dinosaurs
@kevin24004 жыл бұрын
That’s what the guy said after jacking off and his buddy walked in why is your pants soaked
@dannigro8794 Жыл бұрын
Now you can talk to your kayaking friends while you’re kayaking.
@Dismal6268 жыл бұрын
This is what I felt like showing people Reddit back in 2010
@retlasnoj10 жыл бұрын
I can't count how many times did my pop yelled at me about being on the phone line....LMAO
@JonasClark8 жыл бұрын
I well remember seeing this commercial and having no idea what they were talking about. Yet by 1996 I was using AOL.
@muckymucks10 жыл бұрын
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.
@FinestCitizen6 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, it was the other way around for me. I used to be kicked off for every little single discrepancy. Scroll too fast in a chat room? Goodbye. Send too many Instant Messages in a certain period of time? Goodbye. Drop the F-bomb in a conversation? Account terminated. I had to actually call and *beg* them to let me back online. What a nightmare that was.
@patriciaelena13265 жыл бұрын
You should have did like we did. Set out computer date back. It calculated based on time passed on computer 😭😭😭
@PANZERFAUST904 жыл бұрын
@@patriciaelena1326 what?
@knglerxst4 жыл бұрын
@@patriciaelena1326 Ingenious.
@patriciaelena13264 жыл бұрын
@@PANZERFAUST90 our family would just keep the date the same or set it back on the calendar. Lol. AOL trials timed based off computer calendar days passed. Idk I remember we always had to keep it on like august 23rd lol. For like over 2 years.
@allthingsbegin3 жыл бұрын
I remember they used to bill bill bill for those hours.
@knightwing51696 жыл бұрын
If I had been alive in 1995, I definitely would have called that phone number.
@japanquakeytp2 жыл бұрын
I’m gonna call it right now in 2022…
@japanquakeytp2 жыл бұрын
update, it played a mid 2000s virgin mobile hang up sound wtf- i have T-Mobile
@iAlphafox128 жыл бұрын
now look at today. its a fucking warzone
@MrVarhansen7 жыл бұрын
what, the internet?
@iAlphafox127 жыл бұрын
MrVarhansen yep
@BradiKal614 жыл бұрын
'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'
@danguzy9184 ай бұрын
I enjoy seeing these old commercials but at the same time they kind of make me feel old too.
@MrKajithecat10 жыл бұрын
AOL brought me porn when I was too young to buy porn. Thanks AOL.
@scurelle22375 жыл бұрын
NumberWonMonkey eww nasty guy
@francobobfred4 жыл бұрын
You buy porn now??
@chrismaida48558 жыл бұрын
Even though I was a kid in 1995, it's one of my favorite years to date.
@MrFeelGoodJson24YTP9 жыл бұрын
'The Facebook' commercial brought me here
@fabicasde9 жыл бұрын
Internet unites us :')
@teltri9 жыл бұрын
Same here. Welcome to Matrix.
@123chargeit2 ай бұрын
"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.
@davidmreyes779 жыл бұрын
The Facebook sent me here.
@wuphf3 жыл бұрын
my name is BRANT
@danielbressie701211 жыл бұрын
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.
@luisduran14674 ай бұрын
It's amazing how we are watching something that they consider "revolutionary" with a smartphone in the palm of our hands.
@DianeMBassett Жыл бұрын
I met my husband of 21 years on Love@aol. Still going strong! Thank you aol ❤
@danieljr686910 жыл бұрын
Remember the photos were loaded as .art? JPEGs took too long to load.
@JoshRedcay10 жыл бұрын
Wow...its crazy how much we take for granted
@betotrono3 жыл бұрын
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.
@aprilleerose9 ай бұрын
Remember the AOL chat rooms? Loved them!
@daveheel10 жыл бұрын
anyone missing hearing "you've got mail"?
@rkmugen4 жыл бұрын
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!
@RyanSchechtman5 ай бұрын
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.
@RyanStokes4GOVFL10 жыл бұрын
The hell kind of connection he had? Those browser windows popped instantly. 0:32
@dguy03863 жыл бұрын
can we just acknowledge how incredibly ironic it is that we are watching a commercial for the internet.......on the internet
@DevilFish694 жыл бұрын
This looks awesome. I'm definitely getting this. AOL Internet subscription here I come.
@MadameSomnambule Жыл бұрын
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.
@BoogsterSU29 жыл бұрын
The Internet - A dark carnival of humanity's most wrathful impulses!
@s.bakyhnh17567 жыл бұрын
You are a malevolent god.
@rickydavis55417 жыл бұрын
I'm old
@dstill34347 жыл бұрын
Guy: "ready for the game?" 10 seconds later, same guy Guy: "I can't go to the game"
@billblaski95233 жыл бұрын
The guy at the computer was the one to ask if hes ready for the game
@ricardoreporterkiro7news7213 жыл бұрын
why really miss game because I miss aol too many times and now my friend point right huh 🤔 and I don’t know 🤷♂️ right away aol mail right huh 🤔 point about this morning reporter right now point penny penny thanks 🙏 penny penny option penny penny penny option penny penny option option
@ricardoaolamerican11542 жыл бұрын
hey dude aol american mail me anytime 😊 I wanted say hello ❤ jek I'm glad you like it was just about me getting to know you dick he'll
@ricardoaolamerican11542 жыл бұрын
@@ricardoreporterkiro7news721 penny
@sammysoppy33613 жыл бұрын
god i remember when you couldn’t check the mailbox without having one or two of the aol cd’s in there.
@mcdoogle2749 жыл бұрын
The AOL dialer was the only software that came on 660 million CD-ROMs.
@Gator15910 жыл бұрын
"Where's Mike?" "Still Downloading."
@arthowardatnight9 жыл бұрын
If he met his kayaking buddies in chat, I have to wonder what they're into besides kayaking.
@NathanIVV5 жыл бұрын
haha....thanks to america online...i had my first.....nevermind!
@OikPoinFive5 жыл бұрын
NathanIVV 1st sin!? Sinna!
@PANZERFAUST904 жыл бұрын
dragon dildos
@Lokigard Жыл бұрын
Umm... You do realize there were hobby chat rooms back then, don't you? Not everything was one big cyber orgy.
@catspjs6229 Жыл бұрын
They wish the internet was that fast back then lol. I used to wait like 4 mins for Webster to load for homework
@THX-kw2jh Жыл бұрын
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.
@ricardoreporter-kd9zc11 ай бұрын
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
@tigrrtom4 ай бұрын
I bought my first computer - a 386DX 33mHz with a 40MB hard drive, and both 5.25 & 3.5 floppies. Ran both DOS 6.1 and Windows 3.11 - in '91 and got on AOL. Been using the same email address ever since.
@SleeperInTravel10 жыл бұрын
I think most of the commenters were born after this commercial was made...
@randomtinypotatocried9 жыл бұрын
Probably.
@PANZERFAUST904 жыл бұрын
I was ten years old lol
@NegativeClock9 жыл бұрын
Came here from the Facebook commercial. ^_^
@Supreme-gu1jz Жыл бұрын
Man nostalgia. Such a long time ago. Oh how far we have come.
@veenasinha81613 жыл бұрын
THIS VIDEO IS ALSO 11 YEARS OLD TIME FLIES
@MrSpy130118 жыл бұрын
Still faster than Internet explorer.
@timesplit--ter27428 жыл бұрын
I remember using IM-Bomber.
@curtyeomans84469 ай бұрын
“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
@washingtoniaofficialyoutub4551 Жыл бұрын
My mom and my dad met on here thanks AOL for me existing
@timinator8559 жыл бұрын
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 :
@dynd9 жыл бұрын
Illuminati confirmed 1:13
@freshy46888 жыл бұрын
omg!!! LOL!!! I saw it
@snakeey10068 жыл бұрын
+dynd LOL
@Mcfaddenskyler8 жыл бұрын
I SEE IT
@Mcfaddenskyler8 жыл бұрын
Also the AOL logo is illuminati confirmed.
@rockntroopen8 жыл бұрын
+dynd was just looking at the comments to see if anybody elese mentioned it
@davemattia3 жыл бұрын
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."
@HovaNirvana3 жыл бұрын
I’ve had my same AOL email for nearly 20 years. I also have a Gmail, but still.
@S54VR63 жыл бұрын
This is a piece of history. turn this into an NFT
@howiehoward10 жыл бұрын
10 free hours. DAYUM.
@JonnyInfinite9 жыл бұрын
I gotta check this out ...
@JonnyInfinite9 жыл бұрын
***** I know. Awesome technology right?
@JonnyInfinite9 жыл бұрын
***** are you kidding? A 56 K modem! Unreal
@andrewp82847 жыл бұрын
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.
@gnnascarfan2410 Жыл бұрын
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.
@DingDangg9 жыл бұрын
i miss those days
@johnissoevil12 жыл бұрын
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.
@danpro45194 ай бұрын
It's 2024 and my nerd dad self just got excited for the internet. . . Can't wait to print out those dinosaur facts!
@MoketeLitabe10 жыл бұрын
A perfect video indeed
@DominoEffect5729 жыл бұрын
AOL should change their name to LOL
@DominoEffect5728 жыл бұрын
Shut up
@CGJUGO808 жыл бұрын
+hewitt greene GOLDEN comment HAHAHAH
@ShartSydePhil9 жыл бұрын
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST... AMERICA ONLINE IS THE MOST GOD DAMNED AMAZING THING I'VE EVER FUCKING SEEN
@athelstan9273 жыл бұрын
Yes and 26 yrs on he's still waiting for DSL connection..
@snizzlefrazzy4 жыл бұрын
“Limit one per household” Seems like every week we would get those 3.5” floppy disks or CD’s