This may sound kind of weird or even quaint, but this is exactly the kind of awesome archiving work that Jason Scott is fantastic at preserving. Why is it important? Literally tens of millions of people were first brought on-line and connected using software from these CDs. They were connected, often for free, to first AOL's information and other people connected through AOL, and then to one of the greatest human achievements in history, the internet.
I still have friends who have aol email accounts, keeping them alive simply because the switch cost for them is too high.
AOL also helped anchor the tail-end of the East Coast's version of Silicon Valley, the Dulles Tech Corridor/Netplex...a place where literally half of the world's internet traffic passes through.
I still have friends who have aol email accounts, keeping them alive simply because the switch cost for them is too high.
AOL also helped anchor the tail-end of the East Coast's version of Silicon Valley, the Dulles Tech Corridor/Netplex...a place where literally half of the world's internet traffic passes through.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulles_Technology_Corridor