Early AOL Commercial (1995)

[SheaF91]

Dinosaurs? Let's just look at the Wikipedia page then...

[rainbows2013]

10 free hours is used to just load. LO-

[Diskoboy1974]

Oh, the days when you had to call an 800 number for internet access! :)

[dboiz24]

Now we have internet on our phones we've come a lonnnggg way

[Sensran1]

FANTASY FOOTBALL?!?!! WHAAAAAAAAAAT!!!

[underlinedbluetext]

People rip on AOL.... but it was pretty cool for a while there.

then it just got sad.

[Titanic19127]

still hve this AOL

[tqsuited]

I gotta check this out!

[THMV1]

AOL.... all you have to do is wait for the disk to come in your snail mail lol good times

[llk517]

This new internet thing will never catch on.

[chada75]

1:35 Email on the Internet? Damn Son!

[JamieinMN]

I remember these days

[fattygoatshoulder]

none of this worked if your mom was on the phone all goddamn day :(

[boredandwise]

how far we've come , its exactly like this...but ...like....super betterer .....to the point where the "internet" almost drives the entire economic plane and influences every single company out now...which in turn ...drives people's money...which sorta drives food and services....which in turn drives people ....people driving people by a complicated ass telephone/tv/radio mix ....man my parents have no idea how that simple idea makes the internet sooo gangsta

[blamejewsnniggers]

I like the blank printed papers at the end.

[javelinxd44]

i like how they say the sites you have access to. I'd like to see internet providers say that now. it would take years

[spectowin]

ITS A TRAP!

[AssimilateThis85]

Forgotten to me were the days of "paying for the time you use". 10 free hours? On that speed? I couldn't even download a whole boob in that amount of time. I'd be stuck at partial-boob. :-\

[mseales]

Wow, now that clearly looked like a thorough and fascinating report about dinosaurs. "Hey kids! Instead of some books that would actually help you I got a couple of printouts of Stegosaurus jpegs. BEST DAD EVER??!"

[scootsie119]

why would you need to call the number AOL disks were everywhere (at least in my area). You couldnt walk around a block without seeing about a dozen of them.

[Groose1972]

Hmm..is that Windows 3.11?

[2010Jakeypoo]

Its like TV on a computer. You dont really have freedom to try everything so you take in only select information.

[concretefeet]

I was sold until he said fantasy football. it's a good thing this devilry never caught on.

[dirtpipedan]

"you know i can send email over the internet?" ...as opposed to....

[PaulGreen11]

Did he say, "Fantasy Football!"

[JubeProductions]

this comercial could have been 5 seconds long....

nerd 1: hey what ya doin?

nerd 2: i'm downloading free porn

nerd1: what? how?

nerd2: it's easy, with America Online

[gardnerbm]

While your at it, tell him he cant cancel his account

[gardnerbm]

Does AOL still exist?

[laxerbra3ad]

@gardnerbm yes

[karen175]

@gardnerbm 

[KelbyTV]

I would need a little bit longer than 10 hours.

[cryptotooth]

yey free dial up

[MasSergioVEVO]

what happens if u call the number today :x

[georgetokedweed]

@MasSergioVEVO Try it

[MasSergioVEVO]

@georgetokedweed lol u first lol...

[iheartmakeup49]

This is adorable.

[blakenorthman]

wtf you payed for the internet

[blakenorthman]

that comuter is sooo fucking ugly

[no2475]

omg gotta call that number ASAP!!!

[arvids817]

You can even play fantasy football :D I can even send email..

[kstarpictures]

I'm glad my friends in real life don't act like pushy sales people like they do on TV commercials.

[taron219]

Dial-up was never that fast! False advertising!

[disneyfanjilly1]

I use to have FASTNET then I switch to COMCAST few years later. Internet is not cheap no more. I use to do that lame phone line hook-up connection back in the day. I had my first Internet I think in 2000

[daraleekmyballz]

jesus fucking christ i cant believe how primitive it was, seeing this i swear i can hear that fucking modem sound anyone remember major mud?

[jac398921]

how did they used to play fantasy football without the internet??

[jsvkia]

@jac398921 yeah I had to look that up myself lmao, believe it or not, they used to

[nicolioraviolio]

thanks stephenn :p

[joliverti]

kayaking was still legal in '95?

[j2d2]

A true sign of the internet's infancy... they actually left the house.

[ApolloKun777]

Before saying AOL was the equivalent of telling an old joke!

[davidsdiego]

The good ole days...

[SystemEquation]

Kayacking... so that's what they're calling it now, huh?

[TechForThought]

"all you need is a computer and a phone line".....and a modem and compatible pc

[disneyfanjilly1]

@TechForThought I use to do the same thing when I first had Internet back in 2000ish. look at it now 12 yrs later ^^ In 2012 it's still popular to be online

[VanNicky75]

Where's "Welcome" and "Goodbye"?

[MawcDrums]

E-mail on the internet!? NO WAY.

[trainluvr]

AOL user = clueless

[leojciaccioii]

"i can even send e-mail on the internet"

[leojciaccioii]

how do i get america online? you pick up one of these cd's that are placed every 10 inches across the united states...

[gardnerbm]

@leojciaccioii lol, i used to say it was raining AOL cds

[AustinOConnellVideos]

too bad all that shit would have taken like 2 hours with dial up

[u770017]

10 Free hours, Im glad they dont measure internet in hours anymore Id be poor

[ilove1994]

Oh how the internet has changed over these years I remember this commercial it is a great one I remember back when AOL came on a CD & you had to install it & when it said you got & Dial-up oh boy thanks for bringing back memories.

[jmrwacko]

0:04 Dude exes out his porn.

[jmrwacko]

1:27 "Here come the dinosaurs."

OH SHIT WHERE

[ce3jay]

Fuck AOL. Its more like A-O-Hell.

[andrewc513]

If I still paid for internet hourly... shit...

[kjohnsen045]

Those fucking dics were like tribbles.

[PlagaXTifi]

Ahh....the good ol days..I remember when I searched "DragonMoonX" for the first time on AOL.

Thank you AOL.

[lzmotorsports]

Now show him the AOL porn!

[cipriani2k]

1995: I can go out because my computer can do things for me,

2011: I can't go out because I need to find things to do on my computer.

[gotflava1]

LMAOOOO!!!! THis is what America Online aka AOL has now become: another Yahoo type of site.

[gotflava1]

Funny I didnt see any links on there for porn and I know porn was on the internet before AOL took mainstream........

[naunga9450]

Limit One per household...lol yeah right. I could've wallpapered my dorm room with AOL disks.

[railrunner18]

10hrs of 1994 AOL = 5min broadband...

[GR0WS0ME]

How the fuck did you get in my house???

[GR0WS0ME]

WAIT UNTILL HE FINDS OUT ABOUT FREE PORN!

[dadasmithywinkle]

He was wrong. The dinos are on the desk!

[Elliott564]

I remember the hate messages they claimed needed to be printed out.

[gretschdrummer100]

I love how they always call it America Online. "Oh, American Online can do that?" haha

[intherock29]

They wanna talk about dinosaurs?

[kbhasikevin]

wow 10 free hours of 56k internet on a windows 3.1 computer

[cfjermedal1]

that is where i met my kayaking friends!!!!

[memorod2134]

OMG 10 free hours of 54k Internet

[maj776]

@memorod2134 56k just upgraded fgrom 33.6 lol

[donniedarko316]

fantasy football!!! lol

[foldes1234]

and now u can do this on ur phone

[DannyJustiniano]

at 0:04 he's startled because he was watching porn.. :O

[carrierform]

i wanna meet buddies

[BrendanIsCool]

...you're all my youtube friends :)

[TheJosh375]

@BrendanIsCool YAY :D

[BrendanIsCool]

@TheJosh375 LOVE ME

[TheJosh375]

@BrendanIsCool I DO

[SuperNumber19]

lol he probably met some big hairy horny inmates and got raped by them.. (don't trust kayaking friends you just met at a chatroom) @_@

[boxman91210]

1 internet per household

[GrumpyOldAssFart]

i vaguely remember this commercial.

if anyone watched The Ricki Lake Show back in the day they refer you to "AOL Keyword "Go Ricki".

[Pattius1Maximus]

Which dinosaurs?



[MineCrafterCity]

When i dailed the number I got a MC donalds :S jk

[IamDanrey]

anybody call dat number ?

[aaronpourazar]

@IamDanrey yeah its a national telemarketing company when you call it

[C0LL1N]

wait! my pagers going off! you got a phone?

[skuzzbunny]

hahaha! so... 1995 is early now...?P i'm mostly surprised that fantasy football is that old, but i guess i didn't know...) have fun with your "kayaking buddies" dude...!D

[DuendeBimbo]

LOOOOOOL

[ALLtimate17]

Don't even let these guys know about wifi around the corner

[wutang87]

omg anyone rememeber any of the private chat rooms names on this, that would be the kayaking aka e mail me naked women aka porn

[paintedonwings]

Oh geeze floppy disks, and monitors big enough to crush your hand. lol

[username0865]

omfg I remember getting those fucking AOL CDs in the mail all the time. afs;gheoiaji;saw

[gd73]

have fun = porn

[ThatBoyBaked]

Hi, this is Trevor with America Online, how can I help you today? I'd like to cancel my account please.

[steamer509]

No virus, yay

[HeyButtahfly]

Ironic how "here come the dinosaurs" is also an accurate summation of the amount of time it took to connect to AOL...

[miker555]

the good old days of not much regulation.

[yadisisp]

"Here come the dinosaurs"

[KnucklesARouge]

aka internet

[finalphantasystar]

@KnucklesARouge NOPE! AOL was NOT the internet. It was like looking through a soda straw, they only let you visit AOL sites, not all of the internet. Yuck!

[KnucklesARouge]

@finalphantasystar Wtf. When did I say AOL was the Internet?

[KnucklesARouge]

@KnucklesARouge Oh, that comment. But I didn't exactly mean that, I was just joking about a phrase in the video

[NARUTOxVSxPEIN]

You can use those free 10hrs trying to load 1 site....

[ScotsmanRex]

about that vacation? Well we had to skip it because it took my whole vacation setting up my vacation on dial-up! of course we did order that 595 dollar cell phone from the highland superstore. The future is great and user friendly.

[ScotsmanRex]

about that vacation? Well we had to skip it because it took my whole vacation setting up my vacation on dial-up!

[Hunkola]

I met a lot of girls from AOL in the 90's and banged them ----- I miss AOL ;-(

[crazybobdj]

We got our 486 with 28K modem in 1996! I think the whole hard drive could hold about 100 megs. It was over 1500.bucks! It took almost two hours to get online! I still have the same AOL. mail! ...I'm on it right now! (-not)

[mychannel7294]

AOL? more like LOL! but i still miss getting kicked off the internet from phone calls, kids now are lucky

[Dweller777]

Aw man.. I just called.. Got a recording. I wanted my ten free hours! This "internet" thingy looks kind of useful..

[WIltshireByways]

"You know, I can even send email on the internet!"

[bryonlape]

Good ole Always Off Line

[DangerDave140]

Hey! He forgot to tell him about the porn.

[Dailybabble]

Gosh! I hate AOL when someone wants to make a call you're off the internet. Lets not forget about that cool jingle that comes with AOL.

[iutri]

The internet was shit for doing research for school in 1995. Kids today have it easy. College was easier than high school because of wikipedia.

[Shellshocker1013]

Fantasy football back in 95 lol. Damn

[powerpunch180]

An ARPANET browser

[bdaleypsu]

They don't mention that it took like 2 mins to load a simple webpage.

[theyeti101101]

...on your computer?

Get the fuck out.

[TheBiAtheist]

@theyeti101101 I laughed so hard. :)

[TheAbbster79]

They probably cut out 6 hours of finding the websites

[epol70]

you needed 10 hours to just go on a website

[danielteague21]

and e mail too

[incubrian]

live chat: "kayaking buddies"

HA!

[bdaleypsu]

@incubrian

That was 90s code for "gay friends".

[TheBiAtheist]

@incubrian They live on the edge man.

[uszoninyc]

They got in trouble for all the garbage those discs were - they inflated their users too; when TimeWarner was looking to buy them (STUPIDEST DEAL!!!!) - AOL said all the people who used those free discs were customers. They didn't mention they weren't PAYING customers. Steve Case - load of shit. Yuck.

[Quaaludedude714]

I could use 10 Free Hours , How do I Get This A0L :) QC

[crazy88boss]

And the porn industry has never been stronger. Thanks AOL.

[StylistRhymist]

1995 NEVER EXISTED

[CarsonCity149]

@StylistRhymist Hey! I was born in 1995

[Skitzobilly]

Wooooow, 10 free hours!!! Gotta get this!

[EMaster2006]

I use to think it was the only internet of it's kind, until other internet companies started to pop up and I eventually discovered that I didn't need AOL for internet access.

[Harvest8888]

But...it takes 10 hours to load up a webpage with dial up!

[DoctorBenderTheGamer]

Assholes

On

Line



[lmo613]

I hated those days when the 10 hours were up had to uninstall then reinstall AOL for another 10 hours plus installing on a 200mhz computer took for ever

But remember NetZero was free??? what a god sent that was but still you had to disconnet to make and recive phone calls....and then DSL came along then broadband killed DSL

[V1RUL3NT]

What the hell is a Newsstand?

[endangeredlonghair]

ijreilly, that comment made me laugh so fucking hard!!!!!

[DBCOOPER888]

We can even send email on the internet!

[DBCOOPER888]

10 Free hours?  Amazing!

[SonsCompassMusic]

Ha! I never paid AOL. I would just find a new "free trial" disc, or when they called, I would say I needed more time to decide. Ah...those were the days.

[chefdstair]

Then there is my personal favorite online chat, then many years later my marriage feel apart after Chris Hanson aired mt on MSNBC To Catch a Predator....

[ijreilly01]

So the kids just sat at home waiting for their dad to bring them to library because I'm sure he didn't have a cell phone. He probably stumbled through the door ,hours after they were supposed to go, skunked up on beer babbling about something that can download all kinds of stuff from around the world. When asked about the dinosaurs, he tosses them a few crinkled sheets of paper with mustard stains and puke residue from the guy behind him and thinks to himself, " The future..."

[ILikeMints]

@ijreilly01 Beautiful.

[DonJHughes]

He never mentioned back in 1995 how much AOL logged you off and how dial-up had so many connection problems!

[acatboy23]

wow looks like a great service i can find buy thing on the computer now!

[Dirtypotatoeater]

10 free hours?!

[gsparkway324]

@Dirtypotatoeater When you bought dial-up internet, you paid either for a block set of hours per month, or for the unlimited service

[Dirtypotatoeater]

@gsparkway324 That was sarcasm. I meant it as in "Oh, gee, 10 free hours. Amazing."

[lazzzzze1]

Don't do it Dan! Stop while you still have your freedom!

[demarkered]

These fellas are gonna fuck.

[Ograws]

1 person uses Google services

[KaiserVadin]

So easy to use i don't use it anymore !

[wurlitzer1400]

It will never catch on.

[TimReed777]

He forgot to mention all the porn.