Your Grandparents are Still Paying for AOL

PC Mag - Today, AOL has just 4 million subscribers. But here is the kicker—those people are still paying. AOL.com, of course, is free. It used to be a pay service, but has been free for years. You can access the AOL.com, read all of its content, and check your aol.com e-mail without paying a dime. If you already pay for an account, however, AOL will continue to bill you. And evidently, that makes AOL a LOT of money. What's more, Auletta estimates that these subscriber revenues generate 80% of the AOL's profit. How much is that? In the third quarter of last year these suspect subs generated about $244 million! All because AOL subscribers don't know they don't have to pay anymore.

This can't be. I'm not mad that they may be scamming old people and idiots alike, thats common practice and I don't have time to look down disapprovingly on every company or person that scams old people for financial gain, it would be exhausting.

My issue is that I haven't received one of those fancy CD-Rom discs in years, despite the fact that the business is still running. I honestly just figured AOL was just AOL.com now, didn't realize they still provided service.  I used to check the mail every day waiting to see if a new version of AOL had come out.  I'd run into the house and install that shit and then troll around chat rooms acting superior to everyone who hadn't upgraded yet (yea I was living in fast times back then). The only thing that sucked was I usually had to re-download all my punters. If you're reading this AOL send me a goddamn disc, you're missing out on a potential customer.