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America OnLine

How many of us were around when AOL was a thing?  Who still has an AOL email address?  How many of us remember that first AOL suggested screen name? I can answer yes to all three questions. Easy stuff that made us happier than pigs in shit. When AOL 3.0 came out and we could customize the fonts, and the colors of the fonts, then be able to save them was HUGE! You could even type in rainbow colors, that you could make dance, or have glittery things! Script that could include MP3 Remember being able to play music tidbits in a chat room?  You would even have a regular that was in charge of playing the music on the weekends. The ability to have not 3, but 5 screen names.  You even had screen names for the holidays, FatTurkeyGal, or SantasNaughtyElf and so on.  It was a sort of competition to sere who had the best screen names.  Then it was a game to figure out who was who, trying to get the user to IM you and tell you who they really were.  It wa...