# Any Old School AOL'ers Still Around? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 1, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-old-school-aolers-still-around/1025306 "2025-12-01T22:09:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-old-school-aolers-still-around/1025306/41 "2025-12-06T15:06:59Z")
> [@slkaopi](#): > > All the stupid “flame wars” that went on. It felt so mean-spirited back then but looking at things now, we were mostly just messing around. Heh! I remember a handful of people who dubbed themselves the Warm Fuzzy Brigade, who welcomed newbies, and a contrasting group who called themselves the Cold Prickly Brigade and mocked the WFB a lot. ---
**Author:** ![slkaopi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slkaopi/32/20327_2.png) [@slkaopi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slkaopi)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-old-school-aolers-still-around/1025306/42 "2025-12-08T17:20:10Z")
I’d completely forgotten the Warm Fuzzy Brigade! There were a bunch of groups like that weren’t there? Man I wish those were archived somewhere. Actually, no I don’t. I was young back then and probably had some really dumb opinions. I have dumb ones now too - don’t get it twisted. I just got better at shutting up lol ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2025, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-old-school-aolers-still-around/1025306/43 "2025-12-09T22:20:11Z")
I don’t really count. I was on the AOL page to read the columns. I had been reading the SD since high school in the books then in the alt newspapers (DC’s City Paper). If I remember correctly I had a dumb question for Cecil and it told me to ask on the Board first. I think I did post a couple of things but didn’t stick around. I didn’t really get the point of message boards. Now that I think about it, I also had an insanely jealous wife who would have flipped out if she saw I was communicating with people (some might be women!) on the internet. I don’t remember if I used the same name. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2025, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-old-school-aolers-still-around/1025306/44 "2025-12-11T01:08:46Z")
I can still tell you that this was the article on the AOL home page that led to me finding the boards. > **[Can you die from picking your nose?](https://www.straightdope.com/21341416/can-you-die-from-picking-your-nose)** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-old-school-aolers-still-around/1025306.md?page=2)