Editors Note: This was a post I did sometime when I was in high school (circa 1997). I found this while digging through some old files. I have made this post more family friendly, corrected some grammatical, and all spelling errors and left the rest alone.
Steve Case must of been out of his mind when he designed America Online, “the number one way to get online.” If he for one second intended to make it easy for any one to get on, and if you believe that crap, then you are a crazy fool.
You see I do not see how any one can go around the ‘by the hour’ pricing which is really by the minute, with out noticing a hefty bill. I made a mistake once and had AOL And this is what happened. We started out and with AOL because we were, learning.
We was stuck on a slow service, in Marshalltown because we did not want to pay long distance, plus hourly fee. That was pretty sad. Plus it was only a 2400 baud. Which is a joke. Then AOL did the switch to 20 a month unlimited. That was a joke. Then we paid for two month period. The next month they demanded that we pay the year charges and took it out of our checking account. That just about did it. We got on the horn and demanded that we got our money back. Plus at the same time they put a fee on our local access. So we had a load to tell them about and we did. AOL paid us two thirds of our money back, and we went and got a better internet service provider (whom we are still with). We still had service for AOL but we got on thru our isp we had, for free, and it was about fifty times faster. I sent a letter to Steve Case, telling him what a lousy service he had and how much of a [expletive] [expletive] fat [expletive] that he was. Finally after a week of that, they wrote me back gave me the rest of the money back and cut my service. I was happy now.
Now having that said, I want to talk about people on AOL They are retards. They do not know anything at all. Sure AOL had a few things going, such as getting on anywhere in the country (provided they had local access there), and a huge file data base in which you could find just about anything you wanted, but there chat rooms sucked. Because everyone lied and if you are going to go online to just to chat to someone for whom you have never met, then I would give you a quarter for a clue. You would have to be a real pansy ass to go on just to lie about your self and suck up other lies you are feed.
Ok enough on the people. Now every one gets those stupid AOL disks in the mail that says try AOL for fifty free hours. (What, I thought that it was unlimited now.) Plus they give you a code and password that is one letter too many (at least everyone I got was, really don’t know cause after the first five came I just burnt the last fifty cds I received ) What is the point of this? Personally I love to kick Steve Case right in his big fat face. And further more, what about there web browser? It sucks. It makes good pages look bad, and bad pages look worse. It is not real good, this is why they merged with the other [expletive] monopoly Microsoft, which I will right about in another thingy. As for Steve Case and AOL, you can take your service and shove it far up your fat [expletive] [expletive], because I do not want it and I do not think that half of your people want it, it is that you have them brainwashed and they can not break free. I did and I am happy for this. I only pray for you brother.
Yours Truly
Trav