That was the best.

The ending, where Nina mentioned paying for internet access by the hour reminds me of an ad I saw back then for CompuServe – they were offering … hold your breath here … 3 (Three!!) free hours of internet access per month with a CompuServe membership.

Ha ha! I remember joining AOL as soon as I got a 28K modem, assuming that AOL was the Internet, and getting a bill for almost $200 because the AOL plan only offered something like 6 free hours of service.

Ah, those were the days…

It’s like explaining Mattel Football II to a kid who has grown up playing the Nintendo DS

Nice old school reference there Bryan. I’ve got a Mattel Football I in the drawer at home! It still works. I remember playing that in the car as a kid on road trips. It was addictive. Ah, good memories.

“C’mon, admit it…y’all miss getting those AOL discs in the mail every other week!”

JetBoy on November 12, 2007 at 5:32 PM

It’s a good thing they stopped. Because when the mass of the distributed AOL floppies reached 3 times the mass of the sun, the earth would have collapsed into a black hole, and then where would we all be? Good thing AlGore invented the internet!

How to tell if a person posting in Usent was an AOL-er?

“Me too!”

It catches the vibe of the show but tosses it to a time so distant that it renders the show’s basic premises and suppositions impossible to sustain.

Not to be a spoilsport, but they’re pretty impossible to sustain as it is. I had to quit watching in the middle of last season, because the silly “magic computer” plot device became intolerable.

amazing how much has changed, who knows what the worlds gonna look like in just 10 more years

Keli on November 12, 2007 at 5:23 PM

Well, given that everything causes global warming, we’ll all be living in caves with no technology whatsoever.

C’mon, admit it…y’all miss getting those AOL discs in the mail every other week!

Back when they used floppies, I went years without buying any in stores; I reformatted theirs and used ‘em.

CDs make nice coasters though.

And AOL if you did a hit a key or move a mouse for .. something like 5 minutes you got the “goodbye”

Well hey .. atleast Al got us here!

If you weren’t around then, it’s hard to explain how much has changed about the things we take for granted now.

I was around then, but it took watching the video to remind myself just how much things have changed.

C’mon, admit it…y’all miss getting those AOL discs in the mail every other week!

JetBoy on November 12, 2007 at 5:32 PM

I was still getting those just a year ago. I used to microwave them for fun.

Or, it’s like trying to explain a parody of 24, when I’ve never watched one second of it.

OhEssYouCowboys on November 12, 2007 at 5:05 PM

It’s basically exactly that clip only with modern technology, and instead of sneaking around the bad guys, he often just kills them.

amazing how much has changed, who knows what the worlds gonna look like in just 10 more years

Keli on November 12, 2007 at 5:23 PM

With the election of Hillary Clinton, the world will have one more stinking, stagnant, Socialist cesspool. America.

should have used compuserv

Anyway, it’s pretty darned funny.

The ending, where Nina mentioned paying for internet access by the hour reminds me of an ad I saw back then for CompuServe – they were offering … hold your breath here … 3 (Three!!) free hours of internet access per month with a CompuServe membership.

Wow.

oh my that brings tears to my eyes!