i met my husband on aol in 1998. we're still happily married. i still use my aol address as my main email as i've had it for going on 20 years. no sense in changing, i guess. but of course, we don't pay for aol any more.
bunkers8399 when back in 2007 when i was three i was stuck with mabye dial up or DSL i don't really know AT&T was our ISP and i still have those vintage filters!
Thanks for the blast from the past. 57600 is a very high connect speed for a modem of that era. Its a sign that something isn't set right. That handshake did not sound like a 56k handshake for either a USR or Rockwell chipset (The two major players of the time). In fact if memory serves 56k didn't really become popular until around 97 or 98. It sounded more like a 14.4 or 28.8 handshake. If you are interested in trying that experiment again, I'd change the settings to something lower like 9600 and see what you get. If you connect successfully then gradually work your way up, 14.4, 28.8, and finally 33.6.
You're right, it wasn't 56k (V.92/V.90) or even 33.6 / 31.2 / 28.8 / 26.4 / 21.6 / 19.2 / 16.8 (V.34). What you heard is V.32 which is 9600-14400. He probably linked at 14400.
Was just talking about the old AOL dial up sound with my friend so we did a quick UA-cam search and ended up here. Weirdly enough, we are also from Greensboro! Hope you have a great New Years! ☺️
My family's first non-DOS PC was that same Packard Bell model with the monitor and microphone!! I was 7-8ish and I still vividly remember the delivery guy wheeling it into our house.
I still have AOL 4.0 and 5.0 on a USB HD. I also still have an AOL account (I don't pay for it anymore), and I would love to be able to re-access the servers and get in on actual AOL software just because, back in the late 90s, I was in a MMX (Mega Man X) roleplay club in the day, and coming from an abusive family, and no friends in school, that little club practically saved my life from what I realize now, was boarder-line suicidal depression thanks to being in such a toxic household and school environment. But, it was all on AOL. I was in that club for about 4 years (from age 16-20), playing (oh yeah get this!) a furry wolfgirl. For whatever reason, none of my friends (who all had reploid characters like X and Zero) didn't seem to mind the one squishy wolfen huntress that had joined the ranks.. Plus uh, getting pulled into events randomly-- they had one where my character was getting attacked by the main bad guys from the series (oh gosh yes, Sigma, Vile, and a random minotaur Maverick).. All of my friends had been KO'ed (we battled via the in-chatroom Dice Roller kinda like D&D style) and I had maybe 2-5 HP points left, and cornered... Myself nor any of my friends knew this was going to happen, but X showed up and literally saved my poor character at the last second. For an X fan girl such as myself, that was huge... God, how I miss those days! Anyhow, just to be able to get in, and access my old buddy list, to see the chatrooms as they were back then, just because I'm slowly building memory comics of some of the more prominent 'events' from that old club that effected me (I already finished one, of that rescue I mentioned above)- I was SO hoping you had found a way online. I tried recently as well, via the TCP/IP method, and it got so far, and then didn't connect. Hopefully someone can find out if there is a way. I would love to access the old program again. Seeing AOL 2.5 again gave me shivers!
You cant access AOL dial up with a free email account. This might actually work with a subscription to AOL dial up which is a whopping $14.95 a month. It still exists!
He is able to establish a connection to America Online, which means their dialup servers are still running for whatever reason. However the dialup servers are not connected to the Internet, which is why you hear the successful connection modem tones and see the connection established message but do not actually go anywhere.
+iCherrySlurpee its a dial-up online service that is a alt to microsoft's ie, and dial-up is basically a thing that connects you to the internet with your phone line, yes, that skyrocketed phonebills back then, but that was the only way to get online back then. No wifi.
that is a BEAST of a computer! I wish I could get vintage computers but I can't find any on eBay that are under 1000 dollars. ;( I used like the same computer you used in this video when I was in Elementary school
AOL had something called keywords. You put a keyword it takes you to a specific website. Were these website AOL only or was it just a regular website on the net?
Still have my AOL email address from 98. Though I haven't used it in forever since it kept getting nonstop spam emails and some foreign guy stole it to make their facebook page. I changed the password and deleted their facebook account lol.
We had AOL dial up from 2001 until we finally got "broadband" from Bell South at a blazing 768/128 k in early 2007.....I will say that AOL e mail for free is a pretty good offering, I especially like the GUI compared to other free services, I ironically I still have DSL 768/128 service today because of the expense of high speed service in my area.
My fav version of aol. Liked the lightning bolt in middle window but forgot what pops up in the 3rd window during connection. Anyone remember? Cool vid
I bet AOL charged you $1,500 for making all those connections. That's what they did to us when our NIC card went bad but the modem was still plugged into the phone line. We run the restore function and it set us back up on ole dialup. Every time we connected they charged a premium. Truly a great company that went to hell in a hand basket.
Look at that Packard Bell!!!! i had that monitor and speaker system! man i love that machine. i miss it! i signed up to prodigy when i first got it...man it was 20 dollars for an hour a month!!! sheesh ....the good ol days...not really but certainly nostalgic.great video!
god this takes me back i think the dail up and everything even joanna lumly's voice saying "you have mail" made everything so much more exciting and special lol!!!! bring it back!!!!!!!
On an unrelated note, the cool thing about the packard bell computer mics were that if you used the sound record program, it could pick up your heartbeat.
No idea how you were able to download that wallpaper, kudos to you. 1 download in our house with that old ass boxy computer of ours and we were screwed xD uuuugh that dial up. Kinda miss it xD
The bad thing about that program was that if you wanted to make a phone call or if someone was trying to call, you'd get bumped offline of the AOL program
Whoah nice packard bell. I grew up one an earlier one didn't even have windows but still ran aol via c prompt..ahh the memories...i still have me original aol account and a nice collection of 400000 plus emails
I used to play the sims and sims 2 on that and after I signed off of it I went on AOL to check MySpace and pick my background music 😂 I used to piss my parents off when I used the phone line for the internet. Luckily my dad got a 2nd line
I miss my old Packard Bell lol, we had it upgraded from DOS to Windows 3.1 and eventually 95. Had 3.5", 5.25" floppies and a CD-ROM just so I can play old games on it.
*strong indian accent* "Hello my name is William, I am an AOL representative how may i help you?" "RRRRRREEEEEAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRREEERRRR (dial up sounds)" "man what the fuck is this??"
I remember using Arachne the DOS web browser on old 486 CPU systems. That was somewhat fun though slow and limited on which web sites you could use. It's still viable to go online with vintage PC's of the Pentium class and lower. With Pentium II or III Class systems I use either DSL or Puppy Way Linux. However I too miss the old Dial up Internet of the 1990's
I HAD THAT SAME COMPUTER!!!!!! it was our families first pc! o man i thought i would nevcer see that again. it came with a few crappy games and it introduced me to aol 2.5 aand the horrrible chatrooms in 1995-1997
***** Ahh man, we have all kinds of Cherry coke in the states, even cherry coke with vanilla, you should do a boarder run and take some back with you :)
***** Ahh ok, I've never traveled to Canada but I tried to send a tiny package to a friend up there and it was going to cost 60 bucks! I'm talking a 6in by 4in little box, it's nuts, so I said screw that. Plus 3 full pages you have to fill out for customs.
love this old beige-box & CRT monitor. I had a Compaq 4712 in 1997, pretty similar. 95 at first, then upgraded to 98 and the Plus! package. Next PC was 2001, Windows ME...then I built an Athlon XP with XP in 2004. I miss those days of AIM. Remember the Entertainment Pack? Rodent's Revenge? ^_^
man them old packard bell speakers could get loud as hell. Especially if you hack the one with the controls on it apart and hooked it into real speakers..
DjJokerr how did it feel to meet the guys who became celebrities on Chris Hansen's "To Catch a Predator"? You probably met them before they were famous!
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My grandparents still use dial-up to this day.
....... why
Prove it
i met my husband on aol in 1998. we're still happily married. i still use my aol address as my main email as i've had it for going on 20 years. no sense in changing, i guess. but of course, we don't pay for aol any more.
TheLaydewlf I bet the guy you were married to in 1998 and before was pissed when he found out you were talking to a new man on AOL.
>Sonic CD on the start menu
My nigga
earthworm jim as wallpaper
Dick Hardon Do Do DOOOO
Pyro Paragon y
hahahahahaah!
8:15 What you came for
Thank you.
so much talking, yeah. urgh. IFekjfejfererjeojeo get on with it. I want to die. 13 minutes of a failed attempt. Autism is a nasty condition.
Really? I was fixin' to say 4:20 was where it was at because I sat here and watched it at 2x speed to get at least THAT far.
Kyle247l and you are a nasty person
*****
Crying only makes you out to be weak
4:47 is where it starts, 8:13 is his second attempt
QSwordWielder thanks bae! ❤️
Tommy Siro Anytime ;) lmao
The real MVP
I'll save everyone 13 minutes of their life. He can't connect using AOL 2.5 in 2015....
salkatib1 Thanks mate! I was actually giving the dude a chance up until I saw your comment almost 8mins in.
salkatib1 thank u sir
it came at 8:29, showed it's O face and went to sleep.
GreenDay1981 MEAN it is a FACE REVAL video?
Thank you
I may be a 2000s kid, but I still used AOL back then on Windows XP, up until 2006 when we got wireless internet.
We were using Comcast I think. I don't remember it too well.
bunkers8399 when back in 2007 when i was three i was stuck with mabye dial up or DSL i don't really know AT&T was our ISP and i still have those vintage filters!
Well then Comcast was your service provider, AOL was just an application. You missed the point entirely.
Veronica Fauxton yhea AOL was a launcher
***** ahh
thanks for taking me back to 1996, even if it was just dialing and hear that dial up, was worth it indeed, nice attempt thank you
The sound of PC nostalgia...the modem dial up and hand shake.
I actually like the 90s. Times were better in so many ways back then.
watershed44 mummy i want that brand spanking new n64 from walmart!
+watershed44 proggies XxxInsertNameHerexxX good times
***** Yes, and I confess I liked the AOL chat rooms met so many interesting and intriguing people on there!
+watershed44 Your nostalgia blinders are on. The internet is way better now than it was back then.
DiverseLA The internet is better, but many other things are definitely not.
I use aol and it took 3 months to watch this video. I'm still waiting on the results from the election
Was anyone else screaming "Get on with it!" after 5 minutes? Asking for a friend.
the legendary windows 95 .
i wuld love to get an old computer from 1997 and tinker around with it for nostalgic sake...
Blazk0 what I miss most from old computers is the maze screensaver. I would spend hours as a kid watching it play through
oh yeah! and loaded them up with popular PC games from the time.
Blazk0 I remember the first time I played against someone online on computer in a Paintball game.. blew my fucking mind
AOL blocked all older clients as of 2015. Which really sucks, they should have left it alone.
Thanks for the blast from the past. 57600 is a very high connect speed for a modem of that era. Its a sign that something isn't set right. That handshake did not sound like a 56k handshake for either a USR or Rockwell chipset (The two major players of the time). In fact if memory serves 56k didn't really become popular until around 97 or 98. It sounded more like a 14.4 or 28.8 handshake. If you are interested in trying that experiment again, I'd change the settings to something lower like 9600 and see what you get. If you connect successfully then gradually work your way up, 14.4, 28.8, and finally 33.6.
You're right, it wasn't 56k (V.92/V.90) or even 33.6 / 31.2 / 28.8 / 26.4 / 21.6 / 19.2 / 16.8 (V.34). What you heard is V.32 which is 9600-14400. He probably linked at 14400.
Wow, You must really love Earthworm Jim.
I know, right?
+Joseph Phillips I remember playing that game, it was crazy
allrighter 04 I remember that game being hard as fuck, could never finish it.
Phone:Thank you for calling...
Modem:beeeeeeeeeeee...
Was just talking about the old AOL dial up sound with my friend so we did a quick UA-cam search and ended up here.
Weirdly enough, we are also from Greensboro! Hope you have a great New Years! ☺️
Nice wallpaper.
love the earthworm jim wallpaper :)
My family's first non-DOS PC was that same Packard Bell model with the monitor and microphone!! I was 7-8ish and I still vividly remember the delivery guy wheeling it into our house.
I still have AOL 4.0 and 5.0 on a USB HD. I also still have an AOL account (I don't pay for it anymore), and I would love to be able to re-access the servers and get in on actual AOL software just because, back in the late 90s, I was in a MMX (Mega Man X) roleplay club in the day, and coming from an abusive family, and no friends in school, that little club practically saved my life from what I realize now, was boarder-line suicidal depression thanks to being in such a toxic household and school environment.
But, it was all on AOL. I was in that club for about 4 years (from age 16-20), playing (oh yeah get this!) a furry wolfgirl. For whatever reason, none of my friends (who all had reploid characters like X and Zero) didn't seem to mind the one squishy wolfen huntress that had joined the ranks.. Plus uh, getting pulled into events randomly-- they had one where my character was getting attacked by the main bad guys from the series (oh gosh yes, Sigma, Vile, and a random minotaur Maverick).. All of my friends had been KO'ed (we battled via the in-chatroom Dice Roller kinda like D&D style) and I had maybe 2-5 HP points left, and cornered... Myself nor any of my friends knew this was going to happen, but X showed up and literally saved my poor character at the last second. For an X fan girl such as myself, that was huge... God, how I miss those days!
Anyhow, just to be able to get in, and access my old buddy list, to see the chatrooms as they were back then, just because I'm slowly building memory comics of some of the more prominent 'events' from that old club that effected me (I already finished one, of that rescue I mentioned above)- I was SO hoping you had found a way online. I tried recently as well, via the TCP/IP method, and it got so far, and then didn't connect.
Hopefully someone can find out if there is a way. I would love to access the old program again. Seeing AOL 2.5 again gave me shivers!
You cant access AOL dial up with a free email account. This might actually work with a subscription to AOL dial up which is a whopping $14.95 a month. It still exists!
I always used to say "Welcome, you've made bail!"
I still have an aol email . I’ve used it since the 6th grade in 1999 . And it is my primary email to this day
He is able to establish a connection to America Online, which means their dialup servers are still running for whatever reason. However the dialup servers are not connected to the Internet, which is why you hear the successful connection modem tones and see the connection established message but do not actually go anywhere.
What's America Online I'm a 2005 kid
Well, I wasn't listening because I forgot to turn off my phone when I went to go take out the trash. Im absent-minded I think xD
+iCherrySlurpee its a dial-up online service that is a alt to microsoft's ie, and dial-up is basically a thing that connects you to the internet with your phone line, yes, that skyrocketed phonebills back then, but that was the only way to get online back then. No wifi.
+iCherrySlurpee I'm a 2005 kid I know what all this is 😔
My parents met on aol :) I grew up using it even though I'm only 21. Ahhh, miss those days.
that is a BEAST of a computer! I wish I could get vintage computers but I can't find any on eBay that are under 1000 dollars. ;(
I used like the same computer you used in this video when I was in Elementary school
I met my ex-fiancee in 1995 on AOL in the gothic chatroom lol!
N0vice Nymph congratulations on your mediocre almost-but-not-quite "marriage.
AOL had something called keywords. You put a keyword it takes you to a specific website. Were these website AOL only or was it just a regular website on the net?
Still have my AOL email address from 98. Though I haven't used it in forever since it kept getting nonstop spam emails and some foreign guy stole it to make their facebook page. I changed the password and deleted their facebook account lol.
Where does the sound come from? I thought that sound was only on the phone line...
We had AOL dial up from 2001 until we finally got "broadband" from Bell South
at a blazing 768/128 k in early 2007.....I will say that AOL e mail for free is a pretty good offering, I especially like the GUI compared to other free services, I ironically
I still have DSL 768/128 service today because of the expense of high speed service in my area.
Dial up AND a Packard Bell?! Man, this is my childhood. As an aside, Packard Bell is the worst computer I've ever used.
My fav version of aol. Liked the lightning bolt in middle window but forgot what pops up in the 3rd window during connection. Anyone remember? Cool vid
I bet AOL charged you $1,500 for making all those connections. That's what they did to us when our NIC card went bad but the modem was still plugged into the phone line. We run the restore function and it set us back up on ole dialup. Every time we connected they charged a premium. Truly a great company that went to hell in a hand basket.
Nice Roadgeek!. Your videos are amazing!. Many thanks.
I personally prefer the old dial up with the little running person rather than this key and thunder one
What's ridiculous is there are still people who actually use the later versions of AOL with dialup as their internet - in 2016!
Look at that Packard Bell!!!! i had that monitor and speaker system! man i love that machine. i miss it! i signed up to prodigy when i first got it...man it was 20 dollars for an hour a month!!! sheesh ....the good ol days...not really but certainly nostalgic.great video!
Is that earthworm Jim on the wallpaper? xD sooooo much of a throwback to the 90's
god this takes me back i think the dail up and everything even joanna lumly's voice saying "you have mail" made everything so much more exciting and special lol!!!! bring it back!!!!!!!
What version of Windows are you using? Is it 95?
Wow. Like you, there was a sound I hadn't heard in years as well! Memories!
My First computer was a Packard Bell 4x4. I still have it in my garage! You sir are a technomancer.
On an unrelated note, the cool thing about the packard bell computer mics were that if you used the sound record program, it could pick up your heartbeat.
*YOUVE GOT MAIL*
Those times that we had such a creme color/white PC too with such a big 1024x768 screen and such a microphone 😭
I still use the aol account that I have had since I was a kid in the 90s.
Not too far from you, I'm near Winston. cool video fellow southern nerd!
is it bad that I prefer playing old game systems
no.
Nope
Sasuke Uchiha your phone could do better
Christopher Miller Not at all
Christopher Miller Yes
Am I the only one who got excited just seeing CHIP'S CHALLENGE on the desktop?!?!?
Do you like Earthworm Jim?
lol Packard Bell. Gateway. Compaq, I'll never forget these old, musty tan rigs.
No idea how you were able to download that wallpaper, kudos to you.
1 download in our house with that old ass boxy computer of ours and we were screwed xD uuuugh that dial up. Kinda miss it xD
The bad thing about that program was that if you wanted to make a phone call or if someone was trying to call, you'd get bumped offline of the AOL program
Whoah nice packard bell. I grew up one an earlier one didn't even have windows but still ran aol via c prompt..ahh the memories...i still have me original aol account and a nice collection of 400000 plus emails
You got mail!
Dude I live in NC too. Love that old dialing sound!
I used to play the sims and sims 2 on that and after I signed off of it I went on AOL to check MySpace and pick my background music 😂 I used to piss my parents off when I used the phone line for the internet. Luckily my dad got a 2nd line
This is too funny. Thanks for the memories.
I miss my old Packard Bell lol, we had it upgraded from DOS to Windows 3.1 and eventually 95. Had 3.5", 5.25" floppies and a CD-ROM just so I can play old games on it.
i tried this and got the same weird question about people in households over 50
*strong indian accent* "Hello my name is William, I am an AOL representative how may i help you?" "RRRRRREEEEEAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRREEERRRR (dial up sounds)" "man what the fuck is this??"
The gas station up the road still uses dial up. Hear that every time you swipe your card.
shoutouts to the earthworm jim.
I had that microsoft gaming joystick when I was a kid, that thing is VINTAGE!
Hello, You say that you try to dail up in VMware or virtual PC (comp) How do you that? I want to try and its for me a challenge to do that!
i remember when i got AOL 8.0... those were the days!
When you was calling and you said that was the first time hearing that noise I wanted to know why dose it sound like that and do that?
memories of punters, progs, and warez. those were the days
lol wow I haven't seen that sign on screen in years.
This was an edge-of-your-seat thriller for me.
I remember using Arachne the DOS web browser on old 486 CPU systems.
That was somewhat fun though slow and limited on which web sites you could use.
It's still viable to go online with vintage PC's of the Pentium class and lower.
With Pentium II or III Class systems I use either DSL or Puppy Way Linux.
However I too miss the old Dial up Internet of the 1990's
Did you say Carolina Circle Mall Wiki?
I was just flipping the hell out looking at Earthworm Jim and SkiFree!
this is soooo cool to me for sone reason
I HAD THAT SAME COMPUTER!!!!!! it was our families first pc! o man i thought i would nevcer see that again. it came with a few crappy games and it introduced me to aol 2.5 aand the horrrible chatrooms in 1995-1997
My family had one too. My grandmother was first introduced to the internet in 1997 using that computer, or as she called it, the typewriter tv
a/s/l?
Blazk0 14/m/Austin, TX. LOL
i got a punter, don't mess with me!
got pix? gifs??
I'm 12 and tbh I really want to use those PC's lol
+Noelle Z Our Pc when I was little didn't even have a cd-rom drive, only floppy disk! Trust me you don't want to use one of these ha ha
same
Same but I'm older. for some reason I think older computers are really cool and interesting.
*****
Ahh man, we have all kinds of Cherry coke in the states, even cherry coke with vanilla, you should do a boarder run and take some back with you :)
*****
Ahh ok, I've never traveled to Canada but I tried to send a tiny package to a friend up there and it was going to cost 60 bucks! I'm talking a 6in by 4in little box, it's nuts, so I said screw that. Plus 3 full pages you have to fill out for customs.
4:20 for those that don't feel like waiting
freaking thankyou!
420420420420weed
sweet packard bell, It's been a long time since I've seen that version of AOL sign on.
The square button aol version stopped working in like 97
Take a spin, now you're in with the techno set, you're going on the surfin' on the Internet!
Holy shit! Two nostalgia blowbacks. Connecting to AOL and earthworm Jim! I totally forgot about him!!
He is not trying to hide that accent.
back when the internet was the real wild west
love this old beige-box & CRT monitor. I had a Compaq 4712 in 1997, pretty similar. 95 at first, then upgraded to 98 and the Plus! package. Next PC was 2001, Windows ME...then I built an Athlon XP with XP in 2004. I miss those days of AIM. Remember the Entertainment Pack? Rodent's Revenge? ^_^
man them old packard bell speakers could get loud as hell. Especially if you hack the one with the controls on it apart and hooked it into real speakers..
My parents still have dialup. I imagine it's some dude running 50 phone lines in his home splitting a cable internet connection to 50 people.
in 1996 this was my first computer!
You got the key you gotta get the lightning bolts
Aol and yahoo are both companies of Verizon
I just turned 30 and remember this, but I don't know who Gigi Hadid is. Is this getting old?
HelloZooty Mentioning Gigi Hadid was random.
I remember running AOL on my Commodore 128 non -IBM compatible computer, back in like 1987 lol. So glad for Wi-Fi nowadays :-)
Damn, I guess we're not gonna get to see if Pornhub can run on AOL 2.5 in 1996-era resolution 😞
gotta love aol
AOL had their own access numbers to dial into their servers
I use to hate dial up, but did love AOL chat rooms.
DjJokerr how did it feel to meet the guys who became celebrities on Chris Hansen's "To Catch a Predator"? You probably met them before they were famous!
I thought it was so awesome when my family got AOL for a year, then we got broadband
You got mail!!
Good times :D