I haven't received an "AOL" cd in ages. At one point I think they were sending them out in DVD containers.. It all just seems like such a waste of packaging and postage.
With the postage hike I'm not sure if they do that anymore.. Also you can get AIM (instant messenger & the email) for free.. although using AOL for a internet connection.. not sure how that works these days (cause AOL would ride on your local provider I think at least for dial up).
Its Raining MemesinfrogmationSeptember 2 2007, 19:58:57 UTC
To be clear, I was asking about AOL discs not because I wanted to sign up for AOL, but as I liked the thought of a million AOL discs falling like rain from the windows of Manhattan as a substitute for ticker-tape.
I saw Armstrong step out, but have no memory of it because I was Jorie's age at the time.
I do have vivid memories of one of the later missions, probably Apollo 15 or 16, when I was old enough that my father could explain some of what was happening and I could get it. I thought of it not as a momentous occasion but as just another thing adults routinely did; the main thing that disturbed me was when he explained about rocket stages, because I was convinced there were people in the lower stages who were getting thrown away with the pieces of the rocket. But in the late 1970s in school I became a huge space buff.
AOL is trying to be Yahoo now and it is free to register on their web site.
The last time the yankees won the world series there was whatever they do instead of ticker parade and I can't remember what that was. You know it has been decades since brokers had stock tickers. They all have wireless hand held computers with touch screens running linux now and watch the 30 feet tall screens wrapping all around the trading floor with streaming data and hype and adverts. The only thing that they still do from the old days is scream into phones all at the same time. When they stop doing that then I will have to look for a new job...
By the time the apollo missions were going I was more wrapped up in the vietnam war and such. I didn't even remember there were several missions after Armstrong/Aldrin. I was reading the synopsis of the missions and like the final words of the final mission:
I remember my entire grade school class going to a classmates house next door to the school and watching the landing in his front room on his tv. I still remember his name, too. Joel Gooch.
AOL doesn't send the discs out anymore, unfortunately. I used to string them from fishing line in the cherry trees to keep the birds from eating all the fruit. And no, it didn't work. Even the BIRDS laughed at AOL!
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With the postage hike I'm not sure if they do that anymore.. Also you can get AIM (instant messenger & the email) for free.. although using AOL for a internet connection.. not sure how that works these days (cause AOL would ride on your local provider I think at least for dial up).
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I do have vivid memories of one of the later missions, probably Apollo 15 or 16, when I was old enough that my father could explain some of what was happening and I could get it. I thought of it not as a momentous occasion but as just another thing adults routinely did; the main thing that disturbed me was when he explained about rocket stages, because I was convinced there were people in the lower stages who were getting thrown away with the pieces of the rocket. But in the late 1970s in school I became a huge space buff.
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The last time the yankees won the world series there was whatever they do instead of ticker parade and I can't remember what that was. You know it has been decades since brokers had stock tickers. They all have wireless hand held computers with touch screens running linux now and watch the 30 feet tall screens wrapping all around the trading floor with streaming data and hype and adverts. The only thing that they still do from the old days is scream into phones all at the same time. When they stop doing that then I will have to look for a new job...
By the time the apollo missions were going I was more wrapped up in the vietnam war and such. I didn't even remember there were several missions after Armstrong/Aldrin. I was reading the synopsis of the missions and like the final words of the final mission:
"OK Jack, let's get this mother outta here."
That feels real.
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Al Bean was played by Kids in the Hall's Dave Foley. That reminds me, I have to add Brain Candy to my Netflix queue.
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Joel Gooch.
AOL doesn't send the discs out anymore, unfortunately. I used to string them from fishing line in the cherry trees to keep the birds from eating all the fruit. And no, it didn't work.
Even the BIRDS laughed at AOL!
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Admit it: you grew up in "L'il Abner", didn't you.
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