Where to get free aol cds

Here's the first few dozen. Now, the Internet Archive is hosting the first few dozen CDs, complete with their very 90s graphics. You can browse through the expanding collection and download torrents of the full disc ISO. The tiny time capsules cost AOL a lot of money too.

Back in , co-founder Steve Case said he didn't recall the exact amount spent on the CDs, but that AOL's goal was to fork out ten percent of lifetime revenue to get a new subscriber. But just look at baseball cards -- they're just cardboard. He also has a website for trading his trophies. You keep hoping that you will find the granddaddy of them all. Perhaps it is a Denver Bronco's Superbowl disc, which was given only to people who attended the game.

Another avid collector is Bustam "The Leader" Halim. Halim has unique discs, which he proudly displays on shelves built specially to show off his prizes. Like Haufle, Halim admits that his collection has become an obsession. As the company changed its strategy and stopped charging by the hour and introduced broadband services, the discs had less of an impact as churn rates rose. Other providers were coming along with better, faster alternatives, and AOL soon started falling behind its competitors.

By , the disc campaign was being phased out, as customers' online habits changed—though there are still an estimated 2. Interestingly enough, in recent years, these discs—which were once just about everywhere—have become something of a collectible , with some zealots hoarding thousands of them for some sort of higher purpose.

Museums have even put them on display , recognizing the importance the early floppy disks and CDs played in people taking their first steps into a more connected world. In the years since the end of the campaign, these AOL trial discs have joined the ranks of JNCO jeans, boy bands, and Beanie Babies as strange relics of the what-were-we-thinking '90s.

Though they're worthless now, they played a big role in the internet boom of the last 25 years. BY Jay Serafino. Sadly, If you lived in the United States in the s, you remember these. They started as 3. I got one just about every single day.