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I wonder if AOL will respond.
P.S. Are they still selling dial-up?
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@dohtem: Yes, allthough it has degraded in quality. When I'm at my granny's I barely get 26kbps.
I'm using netzero free dialup, and I get 48.8kpbs.
AOL = FAIL.
I wonder if AOL will respond.
P.S. Are they still selling dial-up?
@dohtem: Yes, allthough it has degraded in quality. When I'm at my granny's I barely get 26kbps.
I'm using netzero free dialup, and I get 48.8kpbs.
AOL = FAIL.
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Have no fears; AOL will indeed respond to this... once their Win98 machines reconnect...
And why am I getting the baaad feeling that this will be on Lifetime Movie Channel in the next 3 months?
@PencilSharp: AOL is dying. Ignore it and move on.
They once helped a generation of idiots get online, and now those idiots are on broadband being a nuisance on WoW and other games.
You can easily tell if they were from AOL, just ask for their email address.
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Well hey, at least this guy regulated his weirdo fetishes with occasional visits to bangbus. Everybody loves that site.
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What the hell, he was looking up all sorts of flowers and then out of nowhere it's rape, bdsm involving electrocution and other weird stuff.
What a disturbed individual.
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@BlackMage66652: My guess is two users using the same login name. Or an author. And exceptionally disturbed author, come to think of it.
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You can't be serious.
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@dohtem: sadly, yes. i have friends who live in a rural area where neither verizon or comcast/other cable company internets are available...their only options are satellite and dialup.
Can't be any worse than Shrek the Musical.
@dohtem: @RĂ©volution: NetZero's new ad campaign out here is all about their \"affordable alternative to broadband.\" It made me think about those \"worst day ever\" commercials by Saturn... I'd rather feed our family of five lentils three nights a week than give up my broadband.
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so what is the big deal? like no one here EVER used the internet to look for porn and other messed up things just because you were \"just curious\".
2 girls 1 cup anyone?
\"...who displayed a fondness for mold, mange, orchids, beauty and the beast disney porn and testicle festivals.\"
I really hope that sentence is missing a few commas.
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I'm probably on a list somewhere, with the stuff I've been looking up. I think of this User guy every time I do research.
I think that's hilarious that they made a play of his list.
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That looks like my search history :) God that'd be really messed up.
no one tries to find weird stuff on the internet? I do all the time. One time I just kept browsing, I found porn involving knives. Then I kind of stopped. I dont go anywhere where its guranteed gross, I mostly just look for weird.
Turn your safe search off and pick a letter or phrase. Then go from there. click 2-3 links per page, stick with the weirdest one, and repeat.
Or try craig's list \"housing wanted\" if you really want to see what people think is a good way to present themselves in 3 paragraphs or less. The best was something like this (with photo).
\"me and my gf need somewhere to live because there is a warrant out for my arrest in AZ because I didnt pay my child support. Currrently living in car, 420 friendly, have giant snake named Max but hes tame\"
..and he thought it would work!
Thanks for posting this, Ben! Hope you can make it.
And thanks everyone else for all the lively comments.
What has been most entertaining so far is checking out the difference in reaction to this guy's search log when news first broke of the AOL scandal nearly 3 years ago, and now, after we've all experienced some serious growing up, Internettally speaking. (That's a word, right?) It seems as though we've gotten significantly wiser, or at least more aware, of the best, worst, and weirdest of online search.
In fact, we've gotten so used to the idea that someone might be observing our search patterns that Google now offers the Incognito window, to keep our movements a shade more anonymous.
The AOL incident is now part of historical record. This play treats it as such, and uses it as a jumping-off point to examine not just the nature of online search, but ALL search, whether it's for a dirty little website or a real, live, missing person. It looks at how a person's clickstream can form an impressionist portrait of who they are, but might leave out just enough critical details to get the whole picture totally wrong.
--KCG (playwright, USER 927)
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I hope this search somehow makes it into that play, it shoes the true deviant nature of User 927:
\"927 steven cojocarru 2006-03-17 00:43:47\"
@TheBovaEffect: *shows, not shoes - damn you inability to edit!