You can’t have it back, and you also can’t forget.

Oh, to be young and hear “You’ve Got Mail” without wanting to shoot yourself in the face! AOL was like your friendship with a grade school BFF, the one who moved away and didn’t keep in touch.

AOL CD Roms came in the mail so often that they might as well have been ConEd bills or those yellow ass envelopes from Publisher’s Clearing House Sweepstakes.Įmail used to be a game – something you did for fun not something you only acknowledge because you can’t stand to see your smartphone flashing at you disapprovingly. They wanted you just as much as you wanted them – stopping at nothing to ensure that you were supplied with enough “40 FREE HOURS!” CD Roms to last a lifetime. Specifically, AOL – anyone who used Netscape or ICQ made me feel uneasy because… well, how simple was it to just use AOL? It was obviously the superior internet provider.

Years before it was possible to spend hours at a time stalking exes and exes of exes on Facebook, there was just the straight up internet.

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