Dear Former AOL Users

Remember ten years ago, when I would tell you about a cool new entertainment website, and you got confused because you couldn’t get to it by clicking on the “entertainment” category button in your AOL interface?

Remember when people used to ask you for your email address, and you just wrote down the username part, because you felt that “@aol.com” should be implied?

Remember when you heard about Mozilla, and how you wanted to try it, but you got confused and nervous thinking about viewing a website through something other than the default AOL browser? That somehow that seemed “unsafe”?

Has it been long enough that you can admit that you were acting like a complete fucking moron?

What’s that? You’ve finally decided to commit ritual seppuku?

Oh, sorry. I must have misheard you.

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