{"id":35623,"date":"2005-05-17T08:56:56","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T08:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/05\/17\/you-cant-escape-those-aol-cds\/"},"modified":"2005-05-17T08:56:56","modified_gmt":"2005-05-17T08:56:56","slug":"you-cant-escape-those-aol-cds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050517-56\/?p=35623","title":{"rendered":"You can&#039;t escape those AOL CDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.\n And it came with an AOL CD.\n It&#8217;s like buying a Lexus and finding a 35-cents-off coupon in the glove compartment.\n Apparently, one of the questions AOL tech support asks when people call in complaining that they can&#8217;t get their AOL CD to work is, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/waitwait\/archrndwn\/2004\/nov\/041113.waitwait.html\">Do you have a computer?<\/a>&#8221; [Opening Panel Round, second question] because so many people who don&#8217;t have computers stick the CD into their stereo or DVD player and can&#8217;t get it to work.<\/p>\n<p> [Raymond is currently on vacation; this message was pre-recorded.] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-35623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>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&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}