Comment by roskelld
3 days ago
AOL Desktop is still a thing in 2025 and was updated as recently as a few days ago.
Michael MJD just did a video on it. Still contains Elwood's classic soundbites, along with some snazzy images of current pop stars like Avril Lavigne.
I was pretty sympathetic to the idea that this must be AOL taking care of customers continuously for decades until that quick mention that you start by downloading a .exe over plain http.