Did you have AOL back in the day?

Yes and AOL still exists to this day.  It is not prehistoric or extinct. 

You can still create an AOL email account.

https://login.aol.com/?src=fp-us&client_id=dj0yJmk...

I remember playing draughts/ checkers on AOL 

Might have tried aol. It was horrible. That was a long time ago. Juno DSL was pretty good. Finally switched to cable last year it's only $12 more than phone and juno seperately. 

No, I never had AOL.

I've never used it hun.

I had AOL for a while.  AOL was separate from the Internet back in the day, so when I got on the Internet I left AOL behind.

AOL was really easy to use.  You didn't have not know anything about computers, and that gave it a big boost in those days.  It was designed to run on a 1200 baud modem so the artwork was very sparse.  It didn't work with a mouse because most people didn't have them then!

I remember meeting people in chat rooms.  Chat rooms later were filled with bored teenagers who didn't have anything to say.  But in the AOL day, all kinds of people wandered into them.  Housewives and middle-school students and your general man-on-the-street non-experts. They were interesting to chat with.  It was also most peoples' first experience with e-mail, and they really loved it!

An AOL installation CD came with every magazine, and some places there was just a big box of them and you could pick one up for nothing.  My mom collected about 50 of them and gave them to me.  She somehow had the idea that I could erase them and use them again!

Also a friend of ours got her first computer and a modem, and asked me to come over and set it up and get her started.  I brought an AOL disk so she would at least have a site to call with her modem (and the free trial period, which in those days I think was extended to 60 or 90 days! )  I told her I was sure a lot of people bought a computer in those days primarily to get on AOL!  Just as today we see it mostly as an Internet terminal.

I first had Prodigy and then AOL. You had to constantly watch your time or you would be changed for excess.  I liked the games but I was much younger then. 

My Grandparents did. Chatting with the instant messenger was my favorite thing. 

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I still have my aol email acct and yes I use it.

Its got to be over 20 years old.

No but my mom still has and AOL email address .... it's like 25 years old