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Bespoke idiot internet solution

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1 Jul 30th, 2000 

15 Ciao members have rated this review on average: not helpful

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Good for a beginner .

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Who wants to be a beginner for more than a week?

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kitt

kitt

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Anyone who advocates use use of AOL obviously hasn't been using the internet for very long or are completely computer illiterate. I am not saying that is a bad thing. AOL is useful for showing people the ropes but at the end of the day, once you have got used to using the net AOL internet solutions truly suck. The software provided actually prevents you tapping the real power from the net. Basically, as far as credability is concerned, I am an Internet Systems Engineer (geek) and AOL users are a joke in our field - which has got to be bad. Being someone@aol.com might as well be an alias to someone@clueless.com. Isn't it time to take the training wheels off the internet and move to a cheaper, non-bespoke internet solution? I think so.
 

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wiggglypufff 20.05.2004 23:48

Each to their own - It doesn't help insulting those that choose AOL though, does it?

magicloudz 15.11.2003 20:10

Very funny!

the_mad_cabbie 19.10.2003 01:31

Sorry for the poor rating, but there's very little actual info about the product here...Ken



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