AOL TV Ad from 1995

[MDamped925]

if sopa passes this will be the internet lol

[cspj12]

aol sucked, it was canned internet, the muzak of internet

[vollrath83]

i got 3.0 the new hotness

[airjordanseattle23]

lol i remember my brother ran up like a 600 dollar bill on aol

[tmattrope]

I had the unlimited plan, but once they put me on a "by hour" plan w/out my permission. My credit card was charged over $500 (the bank credited me back IMMEDIATELY). They sucked.

[Tgogators]

10 free hours. I'd use that up in 2 or 3 days

[antiflag1055]

who else called the number at the end of the commercial?

[septembergirl8618]

I remember having aol dial up and it stinked. it took forever to load a new web page and AOL chat room was not secure. aol however has changed. I have an AOL account and it runs good on broadband.

[liaojunder]

American online is one of my favorite internet tool. A pity, now I can't use it any more. It's good memory for me and my friends during 2000 beginning. At new decade, what can we still expect for?

[jjason23296]

Aol was so damn expensive lol and ya had to buy by the hour

[ComeAndSeevX]

I forgot to add.

AOL really started the "revolution" in terms of connecting the world together. There were so many damn cd's around and every computer off the shelf had it already installed and waiting for you.

You had chat rooms, an easy place to get your e-mail, and instant messenger available to everyone. Before the spread of cable internet and DSL this was the shit.

It was more or less Cable + DSL, Google's website, Myspace, and more websites mimicking AOL that ended their era.

[ComeAndSeevX]

Kids today in school grow up with Facebook where they just search for their friends online and add them.

Fucking back in my day in school everyone use to ask what your AOL s/n was and every time you logged on you had to wait 5 minutes for your dial-up to connect.

[onecrazylemming]

Pfft. You couldn't even download a naked picture of Captain Picard in 10 hours on dial up. What hope did we have?

[mickyd110011]

this is now aol desktop. its free

[GrumpyOldAssFart]

I won't lie, i loved this AOL format but really didn't need it in 2002. I was using it over DSL then cable internet.

[Gamer3911]

the words from hell you've got MAIL!!!!!!!

[JFarmer2011]

you got mayo!

[Htos1av]

Spry Mosaic browser(later Netscape) for me in '92.

[mellbutler]

yup, that's how it looked when I got started in 95

[dxrink]

welcome you got mail

[True2TheBlueYoViGang]

i remember playing with the discs as a kid just throwing them around ahahaha what a waste of money i guess it worked tho becuase i ended up using they're service until i switched to bellsouth dialup wich was cheaper then eventually gave up on internet and came back with comcast high speed aol was fucking slow as tits... bellsouth was faster and had a speed booster for free wich compressed images making them look shitty but boosting load speeds now a days thats laughable broadband rockz

[cloudycolacorp]

online magazines

[adgw1423]

they used to have those AOL demo disks fucking EVERYWHERE

[GamerTherapy]

this is so old school

[kmarinas86]

I could swear that I saw this commercial before.

[JoeyJoeJoe5000]

I remember seeing this commercial back then and having no clue what the fuck this guy was talking about XD Ah to be a computer illiterate kid again!

[louie540x]

I remember losing my connection whenever someone called my house. It would get so annoying! Especially when I just wanted to play games.

[Xld2s59]

@louie540x when was this? because it happens to me when im playing ps3 at times and it just cuts off

[louie540x]

@Xld2s59 It happened when we had AOL with a dial-up connection so we were using phone line to connect. So when someone would call it would interrupt our connection. We ended up adding a second phone line, but then eventually switched to COX's high speed internet.

[Xld2s59]

@louie540x ohh i see okok now i understand

[Spike1885]

@louie540x me too .. and downloading.. stuff.

[Rancidkidd]

Up on them internets

[CCDarkable]

"OMG! MOM! I CONNECTED THE INTERNET IN 13 MINUTES! THAT'S FASTER THAN IT USUALLY TAKES TO FIND RECEPTION ON MY CELLULAR DEVICE!"

I love the 90s.

[RedElephantStampede]

And with that lightning fast 28.8k modem speed, you'll impress your friends!

[Sniderman92]

That's what commercials should be like today, actually talking about the information of the product to people instead of some lame ass pop songs, dumb jokes, and some stupid gerbils dancing around.

[generalfuckpants]

I wonder if that guy in the commercial ever became a raging alcoholic.

[LerfaMu1]

everything was so simple to use then, MUCH more user friendly then today

[James05574]

0:26 Their stock price was 73.00 a share?!?!?!?!? Shit, where's the number to my broker!! Does Jim Cramer know about this????

[Therealguymins]

I called this number and it said I reached the national telemarketing company.

[bethrisenburg]

FUCK ME, CYCLE WORLD?!?!

[mgdultra1234]

You needed that 10 hours to open a web page

[mgdultra1234]

Lol I remember when internet first came out. Used to walk out of the room while signing on because I hated that stupid screeching sound from dial up. Stock qoutes every 15 minutes lol now a smart phone can tell what you think before you even think it. I miss the 90's

[tonhogg1]

I remember that commercial. Didn't really make me want to go out and get the internet. Now you can do so much online. Streaming high quality video. Now I like having it.

[Ndizzyinthehizzy]

I remember when sending an letter electronically was holy shit status, ahh the 90's

[Tebok73509]

AOL 1.0 disks are worth a lot of money.

I started using the god awful pathetic excuse for an online service when it was at 2.5 and finally got rid of it around 8.0

[Duterasemis]

STOCK UPDATES EVERY FIFTEEN MINUTES

WHAT MADNESS IS THIS

[pathouko]

let me dial that number lol1

[Shamxdatubewatcher]

This was very revolutional. but 21 years later, theres an app for that.

[Ccrazyfella]

They still have dial up?

[Afroxec]

basically this was the facebook of the 90s

[cmdrchris971]

before the real internet...

[xclaimer365]

Stock Every 15 minutes! On dial-up it'll take you that long to load the page

[hrdcrnwo]

With dial-up, 10 hours will let you look at one whole picture.

[GrnArrow092]

I only used the chatrooms and AIM on the AOL program when I was a teenager. I could care less about the other stuff they offered.

[KingDT2007]

Whats america online?

[subersore]

@KingDT2007 mm well I am not from usa , but I would tell you that america online is free service in your country for using the internet or web , it allows you to conect to the web and suf on it , check your email, see who us conected and all these kind of things and by the way america online has been canceled due to some network problems what a shame for you gringo!! but dont worry I think you have a free network that you can connect to the web it called AT&T I think so in mexico we dont hve 1!

[KingDT2007]

@subersore its sarcasm at its irrelevance today

[xxwebkinzduckiexo]

thums up if you are watching this in 2011!

my grandpa has that dial-up crap and thate sound gave me a freakin head ache!!!!!!!!

[thadea]

look at that fucking screen. Look at the generic disgusting boards that opened up. Later on in life, you were better off deleting the AOL program and using the floppy for something else.

[xXWoRMachineXx]

@thadea That's the greatness of the '90s my friend!

[braincrisp1]

10 free hours to look around? 9 of those hours are spent just getting that damn dial up modem to connect!

[Dailybabble]

I recycled all my AOL CDs that were sent to me I made $45. Gee thanks AOL.

[Jaysun325]

lmao i remember seeing these commercials and thinking that AOL knew whether or not you had mail, like paper mail, in the mailbox out by the street. I miss being a dumb kid.

[fitzal3]

sounds like doctor spaceman from 30 rock

[vegeta8085]

thumbs up if you use netzero disks or other free online disks to get free internet!

[xspiritdannyx]

i remember when my free trial went out, i had to run to wal mart to pick up more cds

[sseasons]

i had their dialup....i also had AOL DSL when they were providing it and it was so shitty that it was never able to connect in the day....it would only connect at night (i guess when more people were logged off)....customer service would always lie to me and tell me that my modem was "defective" and so they would send another modem package...i must've had like 5 of them hahaha....so i said fuck that shit and cancelled and went to other providers (something other than AOL) and never looked back!

[Soulwings20]

YOU'VE GOT MAIL

[mrm87]

It's crazy to think how far the Internet has come in 16 years. We laugh at this now, as do I, (10 free hours, LOL!) but it was revolutionary for the time.

[ken00kenny]

stock price updates every 15 minutes

[TreatHumansAsHumans]

I was about 7 when I first saw this and thought the actual mail came through the internet. So when we had AOL and we were still getting actual mail from the mailman I was sooo fucking confused.

[Whisper95Productions]

In 1995 this was a big deal. Who would think 10 years later in 2005 we would get Youtube. :D

[maltodextrin1000]

10 Free hours, to look around and find some 1990s Porn

[kronoloko]

he show a fast browsing hahah omit that is loading for 1 hour /jpg

[sunnyvegas702]

over 100 newspaper and magazines. LOL

[iKeyboard15]

@0:11 "Want to send some email [with AOL]? Type the message, click here, and it's done!" A very big acomplishment at the time.

Now you can do ALL that and more with Gmail, Road Runner, Hotmail, Yahoo mail, MSN, Comcast, and more!

AND you can do this with your phone! Verizon, Blackberry, Droid, AT&T.

If you told that message to someone in 1970, they'd jizz their plants.

[FishDawgX]

For the longest time AOL wouldn't or couldn't verify your credit card until your first bill came due a month after signing up. So, you could just use a credit card generator once a month for free internet.

[snes317]

those free cd's were good frisbee's

thank you AOL for enriching my childhood

[waynesworld112]

if i had a time machine, id go back to 1994 and flash an ipod touch and make all them sons of bitches jealous :) lol

[imlatinoguy]

I can't believe my cousin STILL HAS AOL MAIL! lol. Stock updates 15 minutes because it takes that long to load the page.

[nesboy654]

i remember when they used to send you like 50 cd's in the mail each month

[andayy]

Stock Price updates every 15 minutes?!?!?!!?!

HOLY SHIT.

[YoutuJ3eJ3lows]

OMG! 10 whole free hour of less than 56kbps Internet connection! :O

[dingus153]

@YoutuJ3eJ3lows It would take that long to watch this video

[andr00123]

AOL always sucked

My Windows 95 had outbox or some shit, same thing but free :/

[Dragonrider1227]

"My friends told me to try America Online; I said Why? I've got a computer."

... Does he know a way to use AOL WITHOUT a computer? O_o

[22johnwatts]

What a nightmare AOL are. I call their 'help line' to cancel my account, get re-directed to every employee in their Indian call center, asked by each one the same questions over and over and over again, get transferred again, same questions again, etc, etc. 45 minutes later.....still no solution, still with AOHell...WORSE THAN ALCATRAZ TO ESCAPE FROM .......Steer well clear of AOL

[FishDawgX]

@22johnwatts Is this comment from 1995? You are trying to cancel your AOL account and recommending to others not to sign up for AOL.

[VerticalhorizonXL]

Brings back so much memories. I wish I was still living in the late 1990's. Anyone remember getting AOL CDs in the mail every single month? Anyone remember when you would get demo discs in the mail, or if you would go to Pizza Hut or Toys R' Us you'd get a demo disc for PS1? Remember when people didn't rely on technology so much for their lives? I mean technology today is great and all, but nobody can go 5 minutes without their phone or facebook. I want to go back to the 90's!

[LilRibbonMonster]

anyone tried to call that numbeR?

[JIPALIG]

Omg 10 free hours, im gonna call.

[dukee155]

@JIPALIG Idk if you watch futurama but Lurr from Omicron Persei 8 is gonna want his 10 hours in the year 2995 

[Johfunu]

i will call this number tonight looks like a good deal

[vaibanez17]

"WAOL dot EXE has caused an unknown error and will now shut down." aggghhhhh it took me three hours to load that page! Noooooooooo!!!

[Kingnothing8585]

...just don't pick up the phone.

[Marcycat1]

Holyshit 10 free hours of E-Porn im geting america on line tonight!!!!

[AtTheSpeedOfCheese]

I was born in 1995. Just thought I'd put that out there.

[Samus312]

It's funny how the "You've Got Mail" voice hasn't changed at all since it's launch.

[superrewardshacker]

AOL online lets you look at all the nudie pictures you want.

[micwawaw]

It tells you if you've got mail!!

[erika2012vsu]

I tried it from 95-99. Mother was like get Nick.com so I can use the phone!

[rkmugen]

Reminds me of that guy from 7th Heaven....

[kendy4]

10 FREE HOURS and 7 hours to get your dial up to connect you to the internet :)

[ketsustyle]

@kendy4 oh god i remember that..

[Raveman540]

@kendy4 and 2 for setup :D

[jadonSteve]

why i got a computer, but i do use aol and i have a computer a slow computer

[Maestro13193]

funny how email is taken for granted. i still marvel at how i can deal with other ppl's bs later, life saver man....

[yellowflip9992]

i used to be scared of the old aol logo

[gameblack86]

@yellowflip9992 .

[msnow22000]

Why? I have a computer. Yea, but you don' t have porn on it yet. How are you going to get your porno?

[netiaz]

Well, having a fucking computer is a requirement for using an AOL subscription, man-in-video. So, that's probably why your friend suggested it. Then, man-in-video had to say something fucked up like, "Why? I have a computer." Well, that's probably why your friend suggested it. Shit...

[foxboy1618]

Dood I remember seeing this commercial as a kid cause I can recognize the guy and the voice.

[whoo689]

Only TEN free hours??? That's NOTHING for me!

[JamesAnthonyBuckler]

@whoo689 Haha that's what i thought...TEN WHOLE FREE HOURS...WOW!!!

[thevidiodude177]

7 people tried it and it sucked.

[CodeSlapper]

What struck me about this commercial was "why? I've got a computer." Well, you have to have a computer to use AOL, so I didn't understand that line of thought... ;)

[bacardilvr]

@CodeSlapper I was always puzzled at that line too



[Ejak2021]

I built my house out of AOL CDs from the mail.

[NickolaiVolkov]

@Ejak2021 I TOTALLY forgot about the endless supply of CDs!! Thanks for the memories.

[MegaAwesomeMe1]

@Ejak2021 wow 

[seroyer2]

You have to call them to get Internet??? why not just go to there web sight? oh right 1995.

[ExplorerDS6789]

@seroyer2 Yep, back in them days we didn't have no high-speed DSL. We had to sit and wait 5 hours to get on, or constantly hear that damn busy signal trying to use the freakin' dial-up. And back in them days we didn't have no iTunes or iPods, we had to carry them damn CD players and the jewel cases along wherever went went, and... God, I feel old.

[cjmoshpot1995]

wooooo the year i was introduced to the world :)

[psycholovesflowers]

AOL was strict on me. I got penalized for telling IMing this girl " for being a dick" what a bitch

[ExplorerDS6789]

@psycholovesflowers I remember those days too. Were you on a childrens' account? They're harsher.

[dpbertable]

stock price updates every 15 minutes!

[5utar1a]

0:47 the way he says, "you'll see" is just chilling. the man must have been from the future or something.

[Peltar100]

You forgot about porn.

[adamax]

I remember getting the AOL trial discs in the mail. I was so stoked to get email then!

[GamingPalooza]

I remember when I was still running a Pentium 1, and I had a People PC internet disc trial and it dialed up in order for you to sign up for the internet, then you could just minimize the whole service and go onto Internet Explorer or any chat software that you may wish without even paying or signing up, and it would stay connected for at least 5hrs at a time.

[GP1138]

@GamingPalooza I used to do that with the Prodigy internet signup application. You dial into their server and then minimize the signup screen or Alt-Tab to IE and there you have it!

[GamingPalooza]

@GP1138

lol its good to know someone else knew about that little secret. Worked good too.

[Carlos1Martinez]

i remember all that thats crazy 

[Aleksandrme]

Wow I wish I had something this cool...Oh wait...

[deccacceb]

10 hours! Well, hot damn!

[rake1087]

if only aol where that fast

[MCDiggaPlz]

Anyone want a couple hundred of this piece of shit?

[mattjnor98]

AOL seemed to be ahead of its time.

[ViperSRTnACR]

I remember this.

The only thing it's missing is for him to look right at the camera and say "The Internet... serious business"

[RogersRoyal]

Wonder what that AOL stock he was so proudly looking at there is worth now..

[Tigerwyld]

2011 the internet is for PORN

[MIKON8ERISBACK]

@Tigerwyld I read somewhere that porn sites really started to pop up around 1997 and 1998.

[GamingPalooza]

@MIKON8ERISBACK

Well, I remember one infamous moment back when I was 13, it was 1999, and Cable Internet was fairly new during that time, but we managed to have it through Cox Cable. Well anyways, back then, most people usually had one computer in their home that was shared by everyone, and it was in the living room area. I was using the internet and then a full screen pop up took control of my screen of a nude blonde spread eagle and everyone was around me. First computer porn that I ever saw

[GroupKB]

"a friend of mine told me "try america online" and I said "why, I've got a computer!?" what?

[sirloin3000]

I miss the old internet :(

[LillianMoon]

I was born in 1995. Good thing I never had to put up with this crap.

[puck1310]

@LillianMoon

idiot, you wouldnt have your precious internet of today if someone never improved this 'crap'

[LillianMoon]

@puck1310

Okay, that was some uncalled for hostility. I was just expressing my gratitude that the Internet has improved so much since then. I'm honestly amazed that so much has changed in the last sixteen years.

[TheBelldiver]

I still use my 1995 desk top Packard Bell

[TheBelldiver]

Oh yeah or MSN impossible

[jmkeller]

Anyone remember trying to cancel their America Online subscription? It took an entire afternoon - if you were lucky!

[thomasjeeh]

wow! over 100 news papers!!

[malcommerriweather]

Why? I've got a computer...Well ,maybe that's why you fucking Einstein!

[nyg1781]

if this ad is from 95, why is the pc running windows 3.1 for workgroups?

[SpunkySkunk347]

God this commercial sounds like it would be for erectile dysfunction medication or something.. the music, the tone of the guy's voice,

[ketsustyle]

@SpunkySkunk347 i was just about to say that. 'i got america online. now my dick works!'

[Skullomaniaaaa]

@SpunkySkunk347 So that's why I always got so many spam emails for that shit. It all makes sense now.

[undisputed4life]

@SpunkySkunk347 What if at the end of the commercial the guy says "If your erection last for more then 3 hours call 9-1-1."

[lordkremlore]

@undisputed4life Way back in 1995 there was no such thing as porno on the internet- at least from what I remember using AOL at that time it had a couple of sites from then famous media franchises, and it had chat rooms. Other than that it took about 20 minutes to load the damn thing as your phone line was cut off due to dial-up.

Hard to believe 16 years later I'm typing this on a site made for posting videos that streams wirelessly to my laptop at at rate that's at least 10 or more times faster.

[undisputed4life]

@lordkremlore I think you may have replied to the wrong person.

[lordkremlore]

@undisputed4life That I may have.

[wesmatron]

@SpunkySkunk347 LOL yea...ironically if there's one thing AOL never cured, it was a limp dick.

;)

[MrDukemeister]

A couple of things struck me. One was how shitty the graphics were in 1995. Is that what they really looked like? The other question is who actually uses AOL anymore?

[GroupKB]

@MrDukemeister Yes, the graphics were indeed that bad. But they seemed good back then. Also, america online had a very cozy feel back then, like you were immersed in this quaint world of cozy websites to browse in a highly controlled atmosphere. It was much more exciting back then, in my opinion.

[joshcoby]

what os is he using

[spunker88]

@joshcoby Windows 3.x, it came out before Windows 95.

[Gotmilk0112]

Ahh, I remember having to use AOL just to get an internet connection...and now it's simply a mail/IM service =P

[SkateChannel13]

Dman what has changed in 15 years??? not a whole lot really.

[jmans25]

"you've got mail"

WoW gmail doesn't even do that lol

[RushOrbit]

so it tells you if you have mail eh...? Yeah that's deff a plus

[JayMBeeMe]

This was back in the days when it took 3 days to download a song lol..... You could go do a weekend trip to wherever and this shit would still be downloading lol!

[tsntana]

@JayMBeeMe Music wasn't that long (otherwise Napster wouldn't have been so popular).

A 10 minute AVI, however, took about a day or two. Go to work or school. And when you came home and tried to play it, you were either filled with joy because you were able to watch a blurry/pixelated video not much bigger than a thumbnail pic. Or you were more furious than the Angry German Kid because you instead got an error message saying you have a corrupt file.

[MasterOfMonopoly]

thats windows 3.1