An Apology from America OffLine (1994)

[dasil003]

The astonishing thing is that this could make Newsweek if there were only 15k simultaneous users. But I guess a lot of people had tried getting online as a curiosity, but there wasn't a huge concurrent load.

At the time I had a university account and was safely ensconced in my free shell account irc'ing and mud'ing all night.

[ericras]

And this is almost three years before the huge traffic jam that occurred when they went from pay-per-hour to unlimited: http://thisdayintechhistory.com/12/01/aol-goes-unlimited/

[jadei]

I bought an Earthlink software box at a computer store around 1995. Then after that I used mindspring for dial-up. Never used AOL but got tons of Cd's in the mail...

[brandon272]

I was on CompuServe.

[JeremyMorgan]

Me too! you should email me! 73127,[email protected]