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It was AOL that really turned me on to the Internet. Was it really so long ago that I bought a floppy disc with AOL on it for $25 (before they started sending them out like crazy)? Here’s a report from Washington Business Journal about this landmark:

>>Steve Case and Jim Kimsey returned to the Dulles campus of the online company they co-founded in 1985 to mark AOL Inc.’s 25th anniversary.

Ted Leonsis, AOL’s vice chairman emeritus, was also there, as was current CEO Tim Armstrong and about 2,000 other AOL employees and alumni.

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It wasn’t long ago that, on a late Saturday night, I downloaded a file from the Internet only to find that it contained quite a nasty virus that tried to disable my computer while asking me to give whoever put it there my credit card information so they could “take care of it.” Yeah, right. They’d take care of my credit rating instead!

The solution as I understood it was to use Windows 7 to return the machine to a previously set Restore Point. I indicated that, but I must have bungled it somehow because all I got when I tried to boot the machine up was a black screen with my cursor happily going wherever I wanted it to, mocking me with great glee since my computer wouldn’t work.

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