{"id":198,"date":"2003-01-13T04:31:01","date_gmt":"2003-01-13T04:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=198"},"modified":"2022-02-22T04:44:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T04:44:13","slug":"aol-cds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2003\/01\/13\/aol-cds\/","title":{"rendered":"AOL CDs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"391\" height=\"328\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-2.png 391w, https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-2-300x252.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a subscriber to AOL, not because I like the &#8220;You&#8217;ve got mail!&#8221; sound effects, that I can have automatic e-mail sorting, or perform a goggle-enhanced search. I have it because they have the most numbers of modem banks all across the United States &#8211; no matter where I go (and I do go almost&nbsp;<em>everywhere<\/em>). Every once in a while, though, I realize that once I log on, it immediately greets me with a &#8220;Goodbye&#8221; sound effect, and proceeds to log me off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strangely, this always happen&nbsp;<em>when AOL comes up with a new, improved version<\/em>. Getting on the phone with the helpful AOL tech support personnel (&#8220;Sir, do you have your modem plugged in?&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;I just told you I can dial every other ISP, and I am running AOL on my laptop!&#8221;) usually ends with a stressful hang-up, and a re-installation of the latest version of AOL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coincidence? I personally doubt it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine your Windows operating system decides to just CRASH whenever Microsoft releases a new version&#8230; that&#8217;s what I think is happening. Just a personal opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a subscriber to AOL, not because I like the &#8220;You&#8217;ve got mail!&#8221; sound effects, that I can have automatic e-mail sorting, or perform a goggle-enhanced search. I have it because they have the most numbers of modem banks all across the United States &#8211; no matter where I go (and I do go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}