Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 12, 2002 12:54 AM
AOL itself is a joke. It's a legal virus that leeches itself into every nook and cranny of your computer and makes your entire machine dependent on their buggy software.
They've only got 2 things going for them - but they're the most important 2 things, indeed.
1. New computer users don't have to think to use AOL. They get a disk in the mail (every week!), they put it in, they're online.
2. They're everywhere. Even hardline AOL-haters still keep an account because no matter where they go in the world, they can still get online.
The main point in this article that we all should be taking away is not that AOL is going to lean towards Linux (they have been for quite a while) and we needn't argue about that - but that we as webmasters need to make sure our sites work with all of those newbie ID10T AOL users' browsers.
As a web host, I'd love nothing more than to see people stop using FrontPage in droves because it no longer works with the majority of today's surfers... then again I'm an anti-FP bigot. ;)
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Re:AOL Support/ Linux/ A Joke, really
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 12, 2002 12:54 AMThey've only got 2 things going for them - but they're the most important 2 things, indeed.
1. New computer users don't have to think to use AOL. They get a disk in the mail (every week!), they put it in, they're online.
2. They're everywhere. Even hardline AOL-haters still keep an account because no matter where they go in the world, they can still get online.
The main point in this article that we all should be taking away is not that AOL is going to lean towards Linux (they have been for quite a while) and we needn't argue about that - but that we as webmasters need to make sure our sites work with all of those newbie ID10T AOL users' browsers.
As a web host, I'd love nothing more than to see people stop using FrontPage in droves because it no longer works with the majority of today's surfers... then again I'm an anti-FP bigot. ;)
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