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Re: R.I.P AOL Instant Messenger
« Reply #35 on: October 09, 2017, 11:38:33 AM »
LOL AOL.  What does that stand for again?   :rollin

Ancient history.  Even the dinosaurs are like...AOL?  :wtf:
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Re: R.I.P AOL Instant Messenger
« Reply #36 on: October 09, 2017, 11:41:40 AM »
And is it just me or did every other conversation with a female counterpart turn into a sexual convo?

Well yes and no. They did turn into sexual convos, but every other female counterpart was a dude.

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Re: R.I.P AOL Instant Messenger
« Reply #37 on: October 09, 2017, 02:05:01 PM »
And is it just me or did every other conversation with a female counterpart turn into a sexual convo?

Well yes and no. They did turn into sexual convos, but every other female counterpart was a dude.

I don't know if the ratio was that bad; I used it a little back in the early to mid 90's (when you got the disk in the mail for free; you could build a lolly column out of AOL disks if you wanted to) and there seemed to be a LOT of lonely women, about 26, 27, who were figuring out that the star QB in high school makes for a douchebag of a husband.   Maybe they were guys, but I can't tell you how many conversations ended right in the middle with some form of "gotta go, bye!" because someone walked in the room.

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Re: R.I.P AOL Instant Messenger
« Reply #38 on: October 10, 2017, 02:55:35 AM »
And is it just me or did every other conversation with a female counterpart turn into a sexual convo?

Well yes and no. They did turn into sexual convos, but every other female counterpart was a dude.

LOL. As I learned later on.... :facepalm:
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Re: R.I.P AOL Instant Messenger
« Reply #39 on: October 10, 2017, 02:58:09 AM »
And is it just me or did every other conversation with a female counterpart turn into a sexual convo?

Well yes and no. They did turn into sexual convos, but every other female counterpart was a dude.

I don't know if the ratio was that bad; I used it a little back in the early to mid 90's (when you got the disk in the mail for free; you could build a lolly column out of AOL disks if you wanted to) and there seemed to be a LOT of lonely women, about 26, 27, who were figuring out that the star QB in high school makes for a douchebag of a husband.   Maybe they were guys, but I can't tell you how many conversations ended right in the middle with some form of "gotta go, bye!" because someone walked in the room.

Yeah, that too! It was just surprising to me. One moment you were talking to this cool, hip (forum) chick and the next it was like 'WTF?". Oh well...
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Re: R.I.P AOL Instant Messenger
« Reply #40 on: October 10, 2017, 03:02:26 AM »
I remember it was a random girl on ICQ once starting to talk dirty to me. That opened suddenly a world for me, otherwise I would have kept on to talk with strangers about random stuff never realizing that, as that famous Warcraft-themed song goes, "the internet is for p0rn" (or for dirty stuff anyway)  :lol
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