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Re: The Good Ol' Days of Computing?

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From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject Re: The Good Ol' Days of Computing?
Date 31 Oct 2025 04:01:58 GMT
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On 30 Oct 2025 20:21:26 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Oct 2025 11:29:50 -0400, c186282 wrote:
> 
>> On 10/30/25 02:29, rbowman wrote:
>>> On Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:49:41 -0400, c186282 wrote:
>>> 
>>>>     Hey, it had it's place - an important place. However
>>>>     tastes/interests vary.
>>>>
>>>>     "Industrial"/embedded is very interesting, and useful,
>>>>     unto itself.
>>>>
>>>>     I'm just wondering what 'modern computing' would look like
>>>>     without the cheap 'home pc' push.
>>> 
>>> Chromebooks... IBMs vision has always been thin clients with
>>> everything running on big iron.  MS is going that way too. Works like
>>> a champ unless somebody screws up AWS's DNS.
>> 
>>    AND you have a really high speed connection ...
> 
> AOL on dialup. Enuf said.

Replying to my own post with a bit of synchnicity..

theregister.com/2025/10/30/yahoo_sells_aol_to_bending/

I don't know which surprised me more, that AOL was still around or that 
anyone would buy it. The last paragraph is the howler:

"AOL recently switched off the last bits of its dial-up network. The 
number of customers affected by the termination was said to be in the low 
thousands."

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