Just Write

The week­end edi­tion of the Wall Street Jour­nal had an amus­ing edi­to­r­ial enti­tled “The Wrong Address” by Lionel Shriver. The site requires a sub­scrip­tion, but a free trial may be available. To find it, just do an arti­cle search for “hate AOL.“

Best quotes:

• “I did it! I can­celled AOL.“
• “For years I’d kept this dinosaur ISP….“
• “…you gotta admire any soft­ware that spews such a trop­i­cal array of error messages.”
• “Humil­i­at­ing nursery-​school graphics.”
• “Con­stant updates of a pro­gram whose bal­loon­ing size is in inverse pro­por­tion to its functionality.”

Ouch.

I was an AOL mem­ber back in the day, when they were new, hip and fun. Only a hand­ful of years later, they seem old and clingy.