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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Dec 22, 2025
Beyond The Last Minute
Tedium’s annual last-minute gift guide presumes you’re going to give your loved ones gifts on the 26th … or let’s be honest, the middle of January.
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about tedium
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Aug 11, 2025
Far-Flung Modems
AOL is ditching dial-up. They’re not required to continue running their dial-up service forever. But it would sure be nice.
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modems
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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May 13, 2025
Wrong Merger, Wrong Direction
How MapQuest, a company innovative enough to kill road atlases in one fell swoop, was turned into an also-ran by a bad merger affected by an even worse one.
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Devtools FM
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Jan 15, 2024
Eric Simons - StackBlitz
Eric Simons reveals how living in AOL's headquarters led to StackBlitz and WebContainers that run Node.js and npm directly in your browser.
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Jul 12, 2023
Message In A Bottle
The current splintering of social media across networks is creating a problem eerily reminiscent of the early battles over instant messaging. Here’s what we can learn.
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aol instant messenger
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Jul 23, 2021
The Dial-Up Volunteer Army
Considering the fact that many early online networks relied on volunteers to help build up their base—until one such network, AOL, got too big.
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america online
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Apr 9, 2020
The Original Internet Bottleneck
Many early ISPs—particularly AOL—weren’t ready to offer unlimited internet access in the mid-’90s. That is, until a surprising disruptor appeared: AT&T.
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america online
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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May 28, 2019
Michael Wolff’s Internet Book Empire
The Trump administration tell-all scribe has a history with digital publishing that goes way back. In fact, he edited one of the first guides to the internet.
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michael wolff
Anil Dash
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Aug 20, 2015
It is miraculous.
Sometimes I get an idea in my head and I just can’t let it go. For a few months, I’ve heard this nagging sound in the back of my mind, asking me to revisit Amadeus, one of my favorite films ever. Because who among us hasn’t heard Jeremih intone, “shots…shotsshotsshots” and cursed god for…
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Anil Dash
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Feb 26, 2014
Talking to Steve Case
I had the chance to interview Steve Case for Social Media Week the other day, and though it was a brief conversation, I was really pleased with how it went. Steve’s earliest work on Quantum Link, a predecessor to what would someday become AOL, was formative in my understanding of what computers…
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Anil Dash
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Sep 20, 2012
Tech Now Has Its Own RIAA. Meesa Scared!
Today marks the launch of The Internet Association, a laudable effort from a number of prominent Internet technology companies to address our industry’s historic lack of engagement with the policy world by creating a lobbying group with a coherent platform and formidable backing. I’m happy to see…
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Anil Dash
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Oct 9, 2007
Blackbird, Rainman, Facebook and the Watery Web
I’ve seen a number of people make reference to Facebook’s application platform without knowing a lot of background about some historical examples that might be useful to learn from. So, since I remember a good bit of info about these things, I figured I’d share it for future reference. In 1995,…
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tech
Anil Dash
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Apr 26, 2007
Is Pidgin the Firefox of IM?
Pidgin, formerly GAIM, is the best instant messaging client available; It works with all common IM networks, supports extensions and customizations through plugins, has smart and simple default settings, runs on all common desktop platforms, and is a free open source application. Being so similar…
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Anil Dash
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Dec 22, 2006
How to kill a personality
About a month ago, Fortune‘s Jeffrey O’Brien interviewed Seagate CEO Bill Watkins, and pulled the conversation’s most memorable quote for the headline: “Let’s face it, we’re not changing the world. We’re building a product that helps people buy more crap – and watch porn.” Predictably, the honestly…
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Anil Dash
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Nov 21, 2006
More Linking, Less Thinking
- I’ve been ruminating about radio a lot lately (more on that later), but one of the most pleasant radio discoveries of late has been XM Radio’s 80s and 90s stations, as well as their “20 on 20” pop hits station. Imagine my delight when I found that AOL Radio is streaming them for free. - Let’s…
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andy-baio
Anil Dash
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Dec 5, 2005
Bay Movies, Bernoulli, Slang at the Pole and KartMatch
Sometimes I miss when I used to just share random links with folks. So here’s what’s caught my eye lately. Greencine’s list of movies filmed in the Bay Area led me to a series of great before-and-after shots of locations from Hitchcock’s Vertigo, with an amazing number of places looking virtually…
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aol
Anil Dash
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Mar 1, 2004
A city covered in coasters
Last week, my former employer decided to include an AOL promotional CD in each copy of the newspaper that was distributed in Manhattan. Now, the thing you have to understand here is that tens of thousandsof copies of this newspaper are distributed on the island in a week. And they’refree. Piles of…
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aol
Anil Dash
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Sep 25, 2003
Emptying My Head
A few random thoughts that have occurred to me of late: - Whenever I wonder about random things like "Why are commercial toilets shaped differently than residential ones?" I can usually think through an answer on my own ("Probably so they’re easier to clean…") or I can Google up some answers fairly…
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apartment
Anil Dash
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Mar 27, 2003
hacking AOL magazines
Since, as expected, AOL Time Warner is pulling its most popular magazines behind its subscription walls, I figure it’s only a matter of time until someone sets up a site listing each weekly issue’s passwords, so that non-subscribers can read People and EW the same way that newsstand readers can.…
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magazine
Anil Dash
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Mar 24, 2003
pantsless rockstar lifestyle
One of the great things about working at home all day via WiFi is that I get to waste my time in true guy fashion, sitting on the couch surfing the web and watching TV in my boxers. (As opposed to my old job, when I used to sit around the office all day surfing the web on the Village Voice’s dime.…
aol
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apartment
Anil Dash
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Feb 18, 2003
Google, Pyra, etc.
I should probably clarify some points. I’ve been linked to a lot as the requisite naysayer voice about the Google/Pyra deal, and that wasn’t my intention in my post at all. I unequivocally think that Pyra making this deal is a good idea for them. And I’m an unabashed weblog evangelist, so…
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Anil Dash
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Jan 25, 2003
i hate to say it
I don’t want to be the one to rain on your parade, but if you spend most of your free time developing your Everquest character, you are never going to be elected President. You are also never going to be a rock star.
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anger
Anil Dash
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Jan 2, 2003
bogus blabbing about AOL blogging
Don’t be suckered in by the non-news of the CBS MarketWatch story on AOL providing weblogs to its users. This is a rehash of the weeks-old Rick Robinson interview that Mark Hurst did. Robinson didn’t commit to any weblogging tools being released by AOL, he’s just describing their existing messaging…
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Anil Dash
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Sep 27, 2002
shower time!
I just got out of the shower, and these are the things I thought of. 1. I am somehow unable to take a shower in anything less than thirty minutes. I say to people all the time, as we’re about to meet up somewhere or I’m running out of the house, "I’m just gonna jump in the shower real quick, and…
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apartment
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