Written by those in their mid 80s ....Mountain Hawk wrote: ↑Thu May 13, 2021 9:41 am This thread takes me back to the mid-90’s.
Usually it takes me back to the mid 60’s.
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Can’t you preserve the archived messages by linking your AOL acct to your new service, then transfer them?jdalu75 wrote: ↑Thu May 13, 2021 8:03 amI pay $4.99 a month. Maybe you have the special "enhanced aggravation" version.drd5748 wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 11:30 pm Only reason for me to leave AOL is because it sucks and gets worse every year. In the past year they've 'grabbed' a few dozen subscribers from my address book (used to send out LUWN) and .... deleted them w/out telling me. Amazingly, most of them are AOL users and I still pay $350/yr to use AOL.
I stay with AOL because I have thousands of archived e-mails that I occasionally need to refer to, and I have mailing lists that I don't want to bother recreating on another platform. I figure that few enough folks still use AOL that it's not worth the major-league hackers' time to mess with it -- the only reason I would ever consider buying a Mac.
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Phone #s in the Lehigh Valley began with either Hemlock or Congress. I suspect if somebody called that # today, it won't ring though.
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The good old days of exchanges. When I was very young our exchange in Brooklyn was NIghtingale. The names were distinctive so that the repairmen could distinguish them easily when speaking over a faulty connection. The first two letters of each exchange corresponded to numbers, so the NI became 64. The HEmlock exchange should have changed to 43, and COngress should have changed to 26. No real difference except using two numbers instead of two letters; the dialing remained the same.
In New York they used an intermediate step. Our CLoverdale 8 exchange was altered to RN 3 (RN standing for nothing), then eventually just became 763. That happened back when it was still the Bell Telephone Company of New York, not NYNEX or Verizon; back when a company's name actually told you what the company did.
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Young twerps. If you never had a phone number, that was a town, then a 2-4 digit number, you might as well be Gen Z
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About 20 years ago, our family went to Cedar Fair in Ohio and took in Rutherford B Hayes' homestead. It still had his original telephone with a "phone book" which consisted of a small piece of paper, now laminated and all the phone #s were 2 digits.
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We had a party line when we first moved to Pburg around 1953. Dang lady up the street!
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