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I just nearly sent out an email that referred to 'The Penison Regulator'.

hahahahaha fucking n00basaurus

Things that won't help you get a job, #4327: Sending out CVs from an AOL account.

Mr Kissyfur

• Doesn't like the right things
• Thinks power can be generated by magic
• Credits the general public with intelligence
• Buys houses that fall down
• Uses AOL

WTF is wrong with an AOL account?

EDIT - clarification - WTF is wrong with using an email address on my dad's AOL account?

It puts you in a position where one might assume you personally use AOL's 'services'.

When we were kids, we used to mess around with computers. How did you end up being the least tech-savvy person I know, including my wife?

Connie's a slag, then?

She's a weathergirl, gimpface.

That's not a nice way to talk about Mrs Craster.

You know who owns TUAW, don't you?

She talks about new weather though, twatchops.

I kept meaning to mention that to you.

Is it Dimrill?

I found women.

WTF is wrong with AOL email then? Come on. Explain.

Are you for fucking real?!

I is just catching up.

That Pulse Rifle is shit, no ammo counter on the side. Instant fail My pulse rifle's ammo counter actually works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September is the root of the AOL mockery.

Yes. Next.

So does his.

[edit]I'd also debate the fact that yours works - I mean - does it actually count ammo? I suspect not.

New sig!

ah, nerd snobbery.

Yes - that's entirely irrelevant though. Their abilities as a media conglomerate have nothing to do with their image as an ISP.

TBH this happens a lot with email addresses. I always mock my friend for using Hotmail over Gmail.

Just taken a call from one of our external consultants. His wife has bought him some flight simulator software and a joystick and was phoning for help in installing it on his company laptop.

I don't know why we bother with an IT policy. No-one reads the thing.

On the plus side, it's ammunition of you need to dispose of him through misconduct.

AOL is synonymous with beginners and silver surfers. Remember the CDs that used to drop out of every newspaper or magazine in the mid 90s? They forced their users to use a crappy, fisher price browser, snubbed search engines for a walled garden approach to the net and pretty much noddyfied the whole experience.

Us cool kids were all on freeserve with clara.net subs back in the day.

Cool kids were dialling into each other's computers with 28.8 modems to play Co-op Doom.

I was on IC24 using my friend's login details. I had free Internet after 7pm but had to redial every hour or something daft.

Ah, the past.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aol#Controversies

But it's more of that. It's the joke of all the Internet Providers, used pretty much by people who have no clue about the Internet or computers.

You have, what, 19,000 posts on an Internet forum in less than three years - how can you not know about this?

If someone applied for work here with an AOL email address, I wouldn't even bother opening their CV. Seriously.

AOL Broadband was actually pretty decent until Carphone Warehouse or TalkTalk bought it and knacked it up.
I'm actually transferring from them today, after quite a few years.

I did that too, see.

LOL.

Shit, and I do own 3 cardigans and a model aeroplane.

And the lawyer thing, and being regular handsome.

And they both expressed interest in driving my Tomcat (MaliA did, of course - Mr Kissy seems to have forgotten).

It's never come up?

As I said, I've used an address on the AOL account as it's free (it's my dad's, he's had it for, christ, 15 years) and it's a "clean" address that I can remember the login details for. I haven't even bothered with our BT account as the interface is fucking hateful.

I've got about half a dozen hotmail and gmail accounts, but I can't remember any of them.



Fair enough - but I'm not an IT bod, see.

Christ, I have, yes. 10 October, wasn't it?

Doesn't matter. It's an association that's filtered into the general consciousness.

Get a gmail address and use that and that alone.

If by "general consciousness" you mean "general consciousness of nerds", yes.

Has gmail stopped being crap, then?

Heh... my first ISP was Nildram. I didn't have an account with them, just one of my more foolish mates had let slip what his username and password were.

It was always the best of the webmail offerings.

Apart from occasionally being offline - but then that really would never matter to a home user.

I use hotmail

Excellent! I've just set up Pikeybadboy"at"gmail.com.

Get that on my CV and watch the job offers come rolling in!

It's never been crap, you wrongmerchant!

I'm Phil to Kissyfur's Gary.

Great.

Wasn't there a big huff about it when it was set up, with all the context senstiive advertising based on your email contents? Or was that only in the beta or only just a mooted plan? Or something?

It did have a period of being regularly....off.