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If I may ask. Is AOL an internet provider in the US? Is it still alive and common?

I only remember it as the chat application before hotmail and MSN messenger. It's even more ancient and abandoned. Not a good signal.



I'm being sarcastic. The joke is that it would be the worst possible signal to send out.

AOL was an internet provider that mostly died out in the mid-2000s. Back then, "true nerds" scoffed at it -- it was for grandmas and total noobs.

So if you got an AOL email address (which you still can actually do, turns out), it not only is a relic of ancient technology, but it's a signal that you're a technology noob in like the 90s.

I just am amused at the idea of sending a resume to a trendy tech company with an AOL email address. They'd either laugh or flip out.




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