Early AOL Commercial (1995)

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  • Опубліковано 15 лис 2009
  • 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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  • @jrocco36
    @jrocco36 7 років тому +962

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

    • @laurenj4288
      @laurenj4288 7 років тому +16

      Jayrocco Sechsunddreißig lol ' don't burn up my hours!!!'

    • @laurenj4288
      @laurenj4288 7 років тому +1

      Jayrocco Sechsunddreißig lol ' don't burn up my hours!!!'

    • @born_again_torinos
      @born_again_torinos 7 років тому +9

      You made me laugh out loud. That doesn't happen very often these days. Well played sir.

    • @CinematikNupe
      @CinematikNupe 7 років тому +5

      That...was the funniest comment ive seen all week. lmao

    • @ThrewRedButter
      @ThrewRedButter 6 років тому +3

      I laughed too hard at this comment

  • @future.cadaver
    @future.cadaver 8 років тому +827

    This commercial just aired last week in North Korea.

  • @Wildchildinc
    @Wildchildinc 8 років тому +585

    10 hours on AOL was enough to visit 1 website

  • @kittiia.8438
    @kittiia.8438 8 років тому +659

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

    • @user-gr8ev3xf1y
      @user-gr8ev3xf1y 6 років тому +17

      Emo Anie I remember those days

    • @CarolinaHunter864
      @CarolinaHunter864 6 років тому +41

      No mom....im chatting with hotgirl1616.

    • @justinpettit3432
      @justinpettit3432 6 років тому +1

      Emo Anie Facts

    • @space2803
      @space2803 5 років тому +6

      even when DSL came out when the phone rang your connection still slowed down a lot

    • @cflo1386
      @cflo1386 5 років тому +10

      My mom missed so many calls.

  • @3pointZERO
    @3pointZERO 10 років тому +433

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

    • @MrTree1779
      @MrTree1779 9 років тому +82

      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.

    • @Watcher3223
      @Watcher3223 6 років тому +25

      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.

    • @PromotingTheBeat
      @PromotingTheBeat 5 років тому +11

      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.

    • @SakuraStardust
      @SakuraStardust 5 років тому +10

      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!"

    • @cleanhomer
      @cleanhomer 4 роки тому +4

      My mom said the discs made pretty handy mini frisbees !

  • @jrwheeler81
    @jrwheeler81 Рік тому +181

    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
      @cameroncole06 Рік тому +14

      So sorry for your loss!

    • @cesiumion
      @cesiumion Рік тому +4

      😢

    • @KarlosFirst-1
      @KarlosFirst-1 Рік тому +4

      Ohy God so sorry to hear that it is a very beautiful story wow, God bless you and your hole entire family 🙏❤️

    • @aolmsn
      @aolmsn Рік тому +2

      I'm sorry about your husband :(

    • @f612CreatorsPodcast
      @f612CreatorsPodcast Рік тому +1

      😭😭😭😭😭😭

  • @demo2382
    @demo2382 3 роки тому +67

    "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!"

  • @jzimm1075
    @jzimm1075 8 років тому +224

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

    • @davemattia
      @davemattia 3 роки тому +11

      A few weeks later he was arrested by the FBI because his "kayaking buddies" were a secret group of pedophiles.

    • @skaterat3322
      @skaterat3322 3 роки тому +3

      Lol

    • @chrismarshva
      @chrismarshva 2 роки тому

      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

    • @DeathswingKettlebell
      @DeathswingKettlebell 2 роки тому

      Lmaooo

    • @Jmcsj02
      @Jmcsj02 2 роки тому

      Priceless..

  • @HowieIsaacks
    @HowieIsaacks 8 років тому +253

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

    • @PANZERFAUST90
      @PANZERFAUST90 4 роки тому +9

      as opposed to the post office lol

    • @MarshmallowHope
      @MarshmallowHope 2 роки тому

      thanks howie

    • @johnfoltz8183
      @johnfoltz8183 Рік тому +2

      Woohoo! This information superhighway things sounds neat! Can't wait to see if it has potential!

  • @comradepingu6394
    @comradepingu6394 3 роки тому +126

    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

    • @one7decimal2eight
      @one7decimal2eight Рік тому +17

      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
      @oktavianzamoyski9809 Рік тому +3

      Invented by the military and used to facilitate communication between researchers.
      Today: used for watching TikTok and porn.

    • @jo-lv9iz
      @jo-lv9iz Рік тому

      exactly

    • @HaakonAnderson
      @HaakonAnderson 8 місяців тому

      ​@@oktavianzamoyski9809pretty sure it's still used by the military and researchers

    • @jackilynpyzocha662
      @jackilynpyzocha662 6 місяців тому

      I miss the excitement, but not the waiting, the sound of the modem and having the phone line tied up, or the insomnia!

  • @johnerikson7094
    @johnerikson7094 7 років тому +384

    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!

    • @HQLBvideo
      @HQLBvideo 5 років тому +9

      john erikson this may be the funniest comment I’ve ever read! 😂

    • @atticusoftelephone
      @atticusoftelephone 4 роки тому +6

      ok boomer

    • @chevyman288
      @chevyman288 3 роки тому +3

      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

    • @ricardoreporterkiro7news721
      @ricardoreporterkiro7news721 3 роки тому

      hi my name is Ricardo pinto remember that you don’t call 📱 silence Komo 4 news

    • @jekll
      @jekll 2 роки тому +1

      You're a father!

  • @jenniferoneal190
    @jenniferoneal190 3 роки тому +99

    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
      @fromryuk7785 Рік тому +3

      Thats how i felt too, these days i end up putting a lot on ignore. Sad really how things change.

    • @ricardopinto442
      @ricardopinto442 Рік тому +1

      @@fromryuk7785 Oh god, I remember the first time I went on UA-cam 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?

  • @BobbieBees
    @BobbieBees 9 років тому +63

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

    • @Curi0u50ne
      @Curi0u50ne Рік тому +3

      Lol I used mine as coasters too….but for scented 🕯😂

    • @johnfoltz8183
      @johnfoltz8183 Рік тому +3

      Or two 3D printed save buttons.

    • @jared2754
      @jared2754 Рік тому +1

      Lol 😄👍

    • @mithcee
      @mithcee Рік тому +2

      @@johnfoltz8183 That took me a second haha

    • @remixchild
      @remixchild 23 дні тому

      Kinda funny how they sabotage themselves

  • @lazyboy8776
    @lazyboy8776 9 років тому +154

    "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.

    • @houstonhelicoptertours1006
      @houstonhelicoptertours1006 2 роки тому +1

      No.

    • @one7decimal2eight
      @one7decimal2eight Рік тому

      Wasn't like that at all.

    • @aolmsn
      @aolmsn Рік тому +4

      @@one7decimal2eight There wasn't wi-fi in 1995. There was 28k dial-up, and it was FUCKING SLOW.

    • @ricardopinto442
      @ricardopinto442 Рік тому +1

      @@aolmsn Oh god, I remember the first time I went on UA-cam 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

    • @tigrrtom
      @tigrrtom 3 місяці тому

      @@aolmsn Dig it. And web pages back then weren't as graphic-intensive as they are nowadays!

  • @balabay77
    @balabay77 10 років тому +239

    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.

    • @space2803
      @space2803 5 років тому +32

      Shit i was born in 95'. Should've started crying for that free 10 hours the second i came out of that womb.

    • @projectnerdvana2820
      @projectnerdvana2820 5 років тому +5

      LMFAOOOOOOOOO

    • @OikPoinFive
      @OikPoinFive 5 років тому +2

      A SNAKE IN ME BOOT incess

    • @BossBen1
      @BossBen1 3 роки тому +3

      I have a emachines with aol
      Bullshit number disconnected tho

    • @ricardopinto442
      @ricardopinto442 Рік тому +1

      @@space2803 Oh god, I remember the first time I went on UA-cam 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?

  • @kota687
    @kota687 2 роки тому +54

    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!

    • @moonflower6607
      @moonflower6607 2 роки тому

      if you don't mind telling me may i ask what was it like to experience that era?

    • @ColonelBragg
      @ColonelBragg Рік тому

      AIM was the shit back in the day

    • @trippdocta28
      @trippdocta28 Рік тому +4

      @@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
      @Lokigard Рік тому +3

      ​@@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
      @jaguar3217 Рік тому

      ​​@@Lokigard miss the days of good ole' forumz
      2010 is where it went to sh!t

  • @GETLifestyle
    @GETLifestyle 8 років тому +235

    the struggle, these new age kids will never know

    • @TheTeamdigitek
      @TheTeamdigitek 8 років тому +9

      I was born in 2001 will I understand

    • @abztraktt6403
      @abztraktt6403 8 років тому +20

      +INDEK FINGERBOARDS
      2001? High speed internet was out lol

    • @YungMono0
      @YungMono0 8 років тому +5

      Acting like we even want to know
      fuck that shit with long ass load times

    • @Zeriel00
      @Zeriel00 7 років тому +13

      you guys where lucky, I had to record HBO at night in old VHS tapes in hopes of finding some boobs or something xD

    • @gradygilchrist4923
      @gradygilchrist4923 7 років тому +1

      +Nepu-Tech USA. Lol Hitchhiker series was gold mine for boobs back then.

  • @LolicOnion
    @LolicOnion 11 років тому +23

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

  • @1up17
    @1up17 7 років тому +69

    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-pi1uh
      @xD-pi1uh 7 років тому

      BBPhotography2012 omg

    • @DavidStephenDoucette
      @DavidStephenDoucette 7 років тому +1

      did they even have sites like that back then?

    • @RetroCheater81
      @RetroCheater81 5 років тому +11

      he probably spent 3 hours downloading that 30 second clip aint no way hes closing that out.

    • @OikPoinFive
      @OikPoinFive 5 років тому

      Steve Kay he was in cinemax porn softcore movie xalled elke

    • @runner123ification
      @runner123ification 2 роки тому +2

      He did look a bit alarmed when his friend walked in

  • @MrTree1779
    @MrTree1779 9 років тому +29

    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.

    • @AverageAsianMe
      @AverageAsianMe 9 років тому +6

      What about random backwards messages in blood that would appear on my monitor...and on my wall...and my dreams?

    • @MrTree1779
      @MrTree1779 9 років тому +5

      Oh, those? Earthlink. Yeah...Earthlink. Bastards...

    • @ToddJumper
      @ToddJumper 9 років тому +3

      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.5868
      @e.m.5868 9 років тому +2

      How fast AOL failed was truth to its ignorance. If it wasn't bought out, AOL would be nothing more than a Wikipedia article.

    • @MrTree1779
      @MrTree1779 9 років тому +4

      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.

  • @staceycarmody9970
    @staceycarmody9970 8 років тому +69

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

    • @latinolawdog5067
      @latinolawdog5067 6 років тому +9

      It was hard to forget, considering they came every day it seemed

    • @PANZERFAUST90
      @PANZERFAUST90 4 роки тому +2

      They had them at electronic stores as well, like Circuit City and Best Buy.

    • @Mr.Obongo
      @Mr.Obongo 2 роки тому +1

      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

    • @HardKore5250
      @HardKore5250 2 роки тому

      Why not use Intervening Explorer or another web bowser?

    • @ricardopinto442
      @ricardopinto442 Рік тому

      Oh god, I remember the first time I went on UA-cam 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?

  • @AdoreYouInAshXI
    @AdoreYouInAshXI 8 років тому +236

    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.

    • @JunKurosu
      @JunKurosu 8 років тому +8

      Hahahaha

    • @IVR02
      @IVR02 7 років тому +25

      Now that's what I call "jacking off with sophistication"!

    • @Nightweaver1
      @Nightweaver1 7 років тому +30

      Fucking Real Player. I hated that shit, they conned me into buying their stupid software 20 years ago.

    • @Wafflepudding
      @Wafflepudding 6 років тому +14

      Ah the days of "Heather Brooke", "Dawn Allison", Wifey and Danny Ashe, where you had to WAIT for your hooters dammit.

    • @PeterB9
      @PeterB9 5 років тому +6

      real player, that was truly a software nightmare.

  • @robs5252
    @robs5252 5 років тому +20

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

  • @AverageAsianMe
    @AverageAsianMe 9 років тому +139

    The phone number no longer works

    • @dogman15
      @dogman15 9 років тому +34

      Thank you for testing it.

    • @Steelburgh
      @Steelburgh 9 років тому +93

      How the hell am I supposed to get online then? My kids have a dinosaur project due tomorrow!

    • @anonimenkolbas1305
      @anonimenkolbas1305 9 років тому +4

      It's the National Telemarketing Company now or something.

    • @thegamingchef3304
      @thegamingchef3304 8 років тому +3

      Lol I tried to call a Sega Genesis tips line not to long ago.

    • @falconnewsnetwork8316
      @falconnewsnetwork8316 8 років тому +2

      +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!

  • @rv.9658
    @rv.9658 2 роки тому +13

    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.

    • @zeropointzero
      @zeropointzero 2 роки тому +1

      I sure would've liked to see what internet was like in 1822.

    • @fromryuk7785
      @fromryuk7785 Рік тому +1

      @@zeropointzero telegraphs

    • @mithcee
      @mithcee Рік тому

      @@fromryuk7785 Ponies

  • @CamilleonProductions
    @CamilleonProductions 9 років тому +70

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

    • @MrGencyExit64
      @MrGencyExit64 9 років тому +19

      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.

    • @TheSkully343
      @TheSkully343 8 років тому +1

      +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.

    • @collinsanders7
      @collinsanders7 6 років тому +2

      MrGencyExit64 Hello, fellow old person!

    • @simpsonfan13
      @simpsonfan13 6 років тому +2

      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.

    • @BretLeduc
      @BretLeduc 6 років тому

      They have the internet on computers now!

  • @estew6764
    @estew6764 7 років тому +18

    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.

  • @pantegohummus8215
    @pantegohummus8215 7 років тому +15

    I want these days back

    • @jeromeholloman8089
      @jeromeholloman8089 7 років тому +1

      mee too

    • @VernePhilleas
      @VernePhilleas 6 років тому +2

      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.

    • @iKingRPG
      @iKingRPG 5 років тому

      Yeah aol was my first email

    • @nonic4vic600
      @nonic4vic600 5 років тому +2

      Bish no

    • @nonic4vic600
      @nonic4vic600 5 років тому +2

      I don’t want to call a number on my phone just to go on Snapchat

  • @giovannirastrelli9821
    @giovannirastrelli9821 2 роки тому +6

    The “kayaking buddies” group gradually evolved into Grindr.

  • @rsls101
    @rsls101 8 років тому +48

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

    • @rsls101
      @rsls101 7 років тому

      +Aymer de Valence woooaah!! no need to lose it, it was JUST A JOKE!BITTER BITCH!!!

    • @PANZERFAUST90
      @PANZERFAUST90 4 роки тому +1

      And that's only one way lol
      You'd need the other five hours if you wanna get back xD

  • @scottw6704
    @scottw6704 Рік тому +4

    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...

  • @KimionTM
    @KimionTM 8 років тому +67

    So that was Internet 20 years ago

    • @MadBulik
      @MadBulik 8 років тому +4

      +Hurriname Wait. Wasn't '95 five years ago?

    • @lk1602
      @lk1602 8 років тому +4

      +Eryk Pawlik FIVE???? More like 21.

    • @oprahwinfrey878
      @oprahwinfrey878 6 років тому +1

      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.

    • @yoshibloxgaming9124
      @yoshibloxgaming9124 5 років тому

      @TJTaco 24

    • @PANZERFAUST90
      @PANZERFAUST90 4 роки тому

      the Internet*

  • @scottmackeen
    @scottmackeen 9 років тому +6

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

  • @retlasnoj
    @retlasnoj 10 років тому +13

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

  • @JoshRimer
    @JoshRimer 9 років тому +31

    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!

    • @Patrick19833
      @Patrick19833 8 років тому +5

      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.

    • @nonic4vic600
      @nonic4vic600 5 років тому +1

      Well luckily people back then had the money to do that

    • @ricardomr.reporte5819
      @ricardomr.reporte5819 Рік тому

      Remember aol message hey louder louder amber alert ⚠️ 📢 👏 🙌 👌 ❤️ ⚠️ 📢 👏 🙌 👌 ❤️ ⚠️ 📢 👏 🙌 👌 ❤️ ⚠️ 📢 👏 crazy night 🌙

    • @Lokigard
      @Lokigard Рік тому

      Really depended on your service. In '96, the local dial-up companies were selling lifetime passes for about $300.

  • @JonasClark
    @JonasClark 8 років тому +10

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

  • @LapisGarter
    @LapisGarter 9 років тому +46

    This conversation is so unrealistic. No mention of porn?

    • @PaddyMacNasty
      @PaddyMacNasty 9 років тому +54

      George T. "kayaking buddies"

    • @NewYorkS4U
      @NewYorkS4U 8 років тому +1

      +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.

    • @sha370z
      @sha370z 8 років тому +1

      +George T. was they Age 18 in 1995 to do porn ? And what where there Names ? And who upload it to internet ?

    • @JonasClark
      @JonasClark 8 років тому

      +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?

    • @Herpy1000
      @Herpy1000 8 років тому

      +Jonas Clark All the time. No joke.

  • @mhaze210
    @mhaze210 4 роки тому +3

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

  • @gimpinmypants
    @gimpinmypants 10 років тому +38

    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.

    • @FinestCitizen
      @FinestCitizen 6 років тому +4

      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.

    • @patriciaelena1326
      @patriciaelena1326 5 років тому +3

      You should have did like we did. Set out computer date back. It calculated based on time passed on computer 😭😭😭

    • @PANZERFAUST90
      @PANZERFAUST90 4 роки тому

      @@patriciaelena1326 what?

    • @knglerxst
      @knglerxst 4 роки тому

      @@patriciaelena1326 Ingenious.

    • @patriciaelena1326
      @patriciaelena1326 4 роки тому +2

      @@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.

  • @chrismaida4855
    @chrismaida4855 8 років тому +13

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

  • @MrFeelGoodJson24YTP
    @MrFeelGoodJson24YTP 9 років тому +31

    'The Facebook' commercial brought me here

    • @fabicasde
      @fabicasde 9 років тому +1

      Internet unites us :')

    • @teltri
      @teltri 9 років тому +3

      Same here. Welcome to Matrix.

  • @knightwing5169
    @knightwing5169 6 років тому +6

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

    • @japanquakeytp
      @japanquakeytp 2 роки тому

      I’m gonna call it right now in 2022…

    • @japanquakeytp
      @japanquakeytp 2 роки тому

      update, it played a mid 2000s virgin mobile hang up sound wtf- i have T-Mobile

  • @userrx24117
    @userrx24117 9 років тому +14

    Here come the dinosaurs

    • @kevin2400
      @kevin2400 4 роки тому

      That’s what the guy said after jacking off and his buddy walked in why is your pants soaked

  • @danguzy918
    @danguzy918 2 місяці тому +1

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

  • @MrKajithecat
    @MrKajithecat 10 років тому +26

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

  • @Dismal626
    @Dismal626 8 років тому +4

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

  • @iAlphafox12
    @iAlphafox12 8 років тому +31

    now look at today.
    its a fucking warzone

  • @BradiKal61
    @BradiKal61 4 роки тому +2

    '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'

  • @rkmugen
    @rkmugen 4 роки тому +5

    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!

  • @BoogsterSU2
    @BoogsterSU2 9 років тому +13

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

  • @DianeMBassett
    @DianeMBassett Рік тому +1

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

  • @dannigro8794
    @dannigro8794 Рік тому +2

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

  • @allthingsbegin
    @allthingsbegin 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @DevilFish69
    @DevilFish69 4 роки тому +4

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

  • @123chargeit
    @123chargeit Місяць тому +1

    "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.

  • @aprilleerose
    @aprilleerose 8 місяців тому +2

    Remember the AOL chat rooms? Loved them!

  • @JoshRedcay
    @JoshRedcay 10 років тому +4

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

  • @davidmreyes77
    @davidmreyes77 9 років тому +18

    The Facebook sent me here.

    • @wuphf
      @wuphf 3 роки тому

      my name is BRANT

  • @betotrono
    @betotrono 3 роки тому +2

    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.

  • @danieljr6869
    @danieljr6869 9 років тому +4

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

  • @danielbressie7012
    @danielbressie7012 11 років тому +4

    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.

  • @rickydavis5541
    @rickydavis5541 7 років тому +15

    I'm old

  • @RyanStokes4GOVFL
    @RyanStokes4GOVFL 10 років тому +5

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

  • @RyanSchechtman
    @RyanSchechtman 4 місяці тому +1

    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.

  • @SleeperInTravel
    @SleeperInTravel 9 років тому +16

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

  • @daveheel
    @daveheel 10 років тому +4

    anyone missing hearing "you've got mail"?

  • @THX-kw2jh
    @THX-kw2jh Рік тому +2

    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-kd9zc
      @ricardoreporter-kd9zc 10 місяців тому +1

      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

    • @tigrrtom
      @tigrrtom 3 місяці тому

      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.

  • @MadameSomnambule
    @MadameSomnambule Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @arthowardatnight
    @arthowardatnight 9 років тому +22

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

    • @NathanIVV
      @NathanIVV 5 років тому +2

      haha....thanks to america online...i had my first.....nevermind!

    • @OikPoinFive
      @OikPoinFive 5 років тому

      NathanIVV 1st sin!? Sinna!

    • @PANZERFAUST90
      @PANZERFAUST90 4 роки тому +1

      dragon dildos

    • @Lokigard
      @Lokigard Рік тому

      Umm... You do realize there were hobby chat rooms back then, don't you? Not everything was one big cyber orgy.

  • @timinator855
    @timinator855 9 років тому +4

    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 :

  • @luisduran1467
    @luisduran1467 2 місяці тому +1

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

  • @TheRandomGuy570
    @TheRandomGuy570 19 днів тому

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

  • @Gator159
    @Gator159 10 років тому +4

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

  • @timesplit--ter2742
    @timesplit--ter2742 8 років тому +8

    I remember using IM-Bomber.

  • @Supreme-gu1jz
    @Supreme-gu1jz Рік тому

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

  • @sammysoppy3361
    @sammysoppy3361 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @NegativeClock
    @NegativeClock 9 років тому +10

    Came here from the Facebook commercial. ^_^

  • @dstill3434
    @dstill3434 7 років тому +13

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

    • @billblaski9523
      @billblaski9523 3 роки тому +3

      The guy at the computer was the one to ask if hes ready for the game

    • @ricardoreporterkiro7news721
      @ricardoreporterkiro7news721 3 роки тому

      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

    • @ricardoaolamerican1154
      @ricardoaolamerican1154 2 роки тому

      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

    • @ricardoaolamerican1154
      @ricardoaolamerican1154 2 роки тому

      @@ricardoreporterkiro7news721 penny

  • @davidnelson3026
    @davidnelson3026 2 місяці тому +1

    Back on those days it was fun to be online. Today, it is a nightmare . . .

  • @catspjs6229
    @catspjs6229 Рік тому +2

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

  • @MultiBillycarter
    @MultiBillycarter 8 років тому +4

    "Of course my personal favorite porn I MEAN kayaking stuff"

  • @JonnyInfinite
    @JonnyInfinite 9 років тому +8

    I gotta check this out ...

    • @JonnyInfinite
      @JonnyInfinite 9 років тому

      ***** I know. Awesome technology right?

    • @JonnyInfinite
      @JonnyInfinite 9 років тому

      ***** are you kidding? A 56 K modem! Unreal

  • @washingtoniaofficialyoutub4551

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

  • @S54VR6
    @S54VR6 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @dynd
    @dynd 9 років тому +51

    Illuminati confirmed 1:13

    • @freshy4688
      @freshy4688 8 років тому

      omg!!!
      LOL!!!
      I saw it

    • @snakeey1006
      @snakeey1006 8 років тому

      +dynd LOL

    • @Mcfaddenskyler
      @Mcfaddenskyler 8 років тому

      I SEE IT

    • @Mcfaddenskyler
      @Mcfaddenskyler 8 років тому +2

      Also the AOL logo is illuminati confirmed.

    • @rockntroopen
      @rockntroopen 8 років тому

      +dynd was just looking at the comments to see if anybody elese mentioned it

  • @MrSpy13011
    @MrSpy13011 8 років тому +5

    Still faster than Internet explorer.

  • @gnnascarfan2410
    @gnnascarfan2410 Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @davemattia
    @davemattia 3 роки тому +1

    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."

    • @HovaNirvana
      @HovaNirvana 3 роки тому

      I’ve had my same AOL email for nearly 20 years. I also have a Gmail, but still.

  • @DICKBUTTPENISDRAGON
    @DICKBUTTPENISDRAGON 10 років тому +13

    The dude looks like the guy from American Psycho. "Did you know we can watch porn on here?"

    • @Squiggy2010
      @Squiggy2010 10 років тому +1

      Now how about some music, do you like Huey Lewis? :)

    • @DICKBUTTPENISDRAGON
      @DICKBUTTPENISDRAGON 10 років тому +4

      Squiggy2010 I have to return some tapes.

    • @rthelionheart
      @rthelionheart 9 років тому +4

      Actually, that would have been a tremendous torture to watch any kind of video on a dial up connection. In 1995, 28 kbps was blazing fast.

    • @DICKBUTTPENISDRAGON
      @DICKBUTTPENISDRAGON 9 років тому +3

      rthelionheart Such a dark age...

    • @jc_malone8217
      @jc_malone8217 9 років тому +1

      Squiggy2010 Their early work was a little too New Wave for my taste. But then Sports came out in 1983, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically.

  • @howiehoward
    @howiehoward 10 років тому +7

    10 free hours. DAYUM.

  • @curtyeomans8446
    @curtyeomans8446 8 місяців тому +1

    “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

  • @MartinMaxiepada
    @MartinMaxiepada 12 днів тому +1

    “Ready for the game… hey listen I can’t go to the game”

  • @griesrt
    @griesrt 10 років тому +7

    per hour. Wow they used to really have you by the balls

    • @vesavius
      @vesavius 9 років тому +3

      I used to pay 1p per minute here in the UK...
      And I used to play EQ >

    • @MrGencyExit64
      @MrGencyExit64 9 років тому +1

      Even standalone ISPs back then were not unlimited. I remember my first ISP in 1994 gave me 300 hours a month. Unlike AOL, they had no option to pay by the hour. You hit that limit and you were fscked for the remainder of your 30 day billing period ;)
      They offered access to a silly BBS along with your $20 a month Internet connection fee. You could continue using that after the 300 hours of Internet, but that was largely pointless because it was only other local users and there were other free BBS's.
      In retrospect, 300 hours was probably pretty reasonable for back then. I was a little ahead of my time I guess, because I hit that limit on more than one occasion even with as few things as there were to do on the Internet :P

  • @DominoEffect572
    @DominoEffect572 9 років тому +6

    AOL should change their name to LOL

  • @mcdoogle274
    @mcdoogle274 8 років тому +1

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

  • @danpro4519
    @danpro4519 3 місяці тому +1

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

  • @DingDangg
    @DingDangg 9 років тому +3

    i miss those days

  • @Zeriel00
    @Zeriel00 7 років тому +12

    The dark ages ladies and gentlemen

    • @Zeriel00
      @Zeriel00 7 років тому

      *****
      Hey bud be careful you don't cut yourself with that edge

    • @rsls101
      @rsls101 7 років тому +1

      +Nepu-Tech USA that +Aymer de Valence person is posting such brutal comments to everyone including me. that person should be banned from youtube. we're here for a a good laugh and I think everyone's comments are funny except that person obviously

    • @Zeriel00
      @Zeriel00 7 років тому +1

      Yesenia Rosales
      lol he's one of those kids parents leave alone on the internet all day and all they do is rage and whine because they are desperate for attention. It's pretty sad actually this generation being raised by Ipads.

    • @matthewmoore7314
      @matthewmoore7314 7 років тому

      +Aymer de Valence why do you care what she does? Just shut up and keep your mouth shut

    • @matthewmoore7314
      @matthewmoore7314 7 років тому

      +Aymer de Valence why do you care what she does? Just shut up and keep your mouth shut

  • @veenasinha8161
    @veenasinha8161 3 роки тому +2

    THIS VIDEO IS ALSO 11 YEARS OLD TIME FLIES

  • @zbow1974
    @zbow1974 17 днів тому +1

    i just got a cd in the mail about a week ago lol, had to call and request it.