Digital Culture

13 Nostalgic AOL Images That Take You Back to the Early Internet

Remember the first time you opened AOL and the world felt truly within your reach? Those blue-bordered logins, the comforting “You’ve got mail” chime,...

AOL Dial‑Up Is Ending Sept. 30. What Changes, What Stays, and Why It Still Hits the Feels

On September 30, 2025, AOL will hang up the modem for good. The company has confirmed that its dial‑up internet service will be discontinued,...

Digital Decompress: Sit Back and Relax with a Windows 98 Defrag Video

I don't think anything in my life today relaxes me the way that defragging an old Windows machine used to. Defrag, or disk defragmentation,...

Watch: Windows 95 Video Guide with Jennifer Anniston and Matthew Perry

In the mid-‘90s, Microsoft took a hilarious leap into the world of “Must See TV” by enlisting Friends stars Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry...

That Time Dr. Phil Invited The Creator of BumFights On, Who Was Dressed Like Dr. Phil

On December 12, 2006, the Dr. Phil show took a bizarre turn when they invited Ty Beeson, the controversial creator of the Bumfights video...

11 AOL Homescreens From the 90s Through the Early 00s

For many of us, AOL was the homepage of the Internet. Iconic in design and functionality, it was how most of America got on...

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