May 17th, 2005

You can't escape those AOL CDs

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

One of my colleagues was unpacking one of those $30,000 quad-processor more-memory-than-you-know-what-to-do-with super-server computers. The kind that require their own electrical substation. And it came with an AOL CD. It’s like buying a Lexus and finding a 35-cents-off coupon in the glove compartment. Apparently, one of the questions AOL tech support asks when people call in complaining that they can’t get their AOL CD to work is, “Do you have a computer?” [Opening Panel Round, second question] because so many people who don’t have computers stick the CD into their stereo or DVD player and can’t get it to work.

[Raymond is currently on vacation; this message was pre-recorded.]

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Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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