Comments on: AOL history https://dfarq.homeip.net/aol-history/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=aol-history David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:10:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dave Farquhar https://dfarq.homeip.net/aol-history/#comment-56851 Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:47:15 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=18167#comment-56851 In reply to John Dominik.

That’s a clever use. Somewhere I probably have the tall stack of AOL CDs I intended to make a lamp from but never did.

]]> By: John Dominik https://dfarq.homeip.net/aol-history/#comment-56849 Fri, 21 Mar 2025 03:48:54 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=18167#comment-56849 I remember using AOL CDs on fishing line, hung in my garden, to keep the birds away. I used about thirty of them and it worked for the above-ground pests. The on-ground and below-ground invaders won, but with the garden around the corner of the house, and behind a fence, it didn’t bug too many people… Just birds.

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