Subj : Re: BBS Population, DWeb, Re_AOL
To   : Spectre
From : boraxman
Date : Wed Oct 19 2022 11:18:13

 Sp>  bo> We didn't have AOL in Australia, so there isn't any nostalgia for it 
 Sp>  bo> If anything, I remember people lamenting AOL and its users.
 Sp> 
 Sp> We did have the local variant....  There used to be rafts of CD's with
 Sp> their offerings on it.  AOL Australia, sometime known as Australia
 Sp> Online.. not sure how long they lasted here though.  While we didn't
 Sp> have the original pre-internet AOL we certainly got it trying to be an
 Sp> internet provider.
 Sp> 
 Sp> Spec

Oh really?  I never heard of it!   I did find an "Australia Online", which still seems to exist, but is a regular ISP.  There were ISP's with "accelerator" software which came on CD's.  The ISP was with (Netspace) also had its own dialer which cames on its own CD.  IT also had some dial up accelerator, which I think was just caching and compression and various other "tricks" to make web pages load faster.

Was the AOL back then different to Australia On Line today?

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