> > What I REALLY hate are those AOL free trial
> CD-ROMS they keep sending you in the mail,
> promising you 100 or 1,000 hours free.
>
> They're giving away that much time now? I
> remember when I tried out AOL, it was only 20
> hours free. Of course, be it 20 or 1,000 hours,
> the catch is the same: you have to use all that
> time up in the first month. The whole "so many
> hours free" thing seems quite pointless now,
> when they charge you a flat fee per month for
> unlimited access. I remember when I first
> signed up with Prodigy, all they offered was
> $9.95 a month for five hours of access;
> additional hours were $2.95 per, or you could
> pay something like $29.95 per month for
> twenty hours. To put it it bluntly: it STUNK. Of
> course, it wasn't real hard to rack up five hours
> on my 2400 bps modem back then...
>
> Gri"hurray for progress!"shny

I don't really know HOW many hours you get with those things. I hardly pay attention to them anymore.

Has anybody seen one of those clocks made out of CD's? Those are really cool.

Adam Bomb