# AOL message board - still available to look at?

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**Created:** [March 19, 2023, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aol-message-board-still-available-to-look-at/981364 "2023-03-19T17:48:51Z")\
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Omigarsh! A little googlin’, and I came upon this!

[Discussion of the AOL boards from Ought-Three, where TubaDiva admits to having zip disks full of AOL sdmb archives.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aol-sdmb/153251/22)

It has tidbits like this from **AHunter3** , with the push-pin interface, and postings with garish background colors:

> [@Aol-sdmb](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aol-sdmb/153251/11):
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> … Then came the “new” AOL board, which had a background of pastel push pins on a corkboard, and which had real threads.There were only two forums, “General Questions” and “Comments on Cecils Column”. When you opened them, you would only see the threads that had posts since the last time you’d logged in…
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> AOL’s formatting allowed for color and size, and also background color. Some newbies would come in and post in 18 point bold red on a fuchsia background and everyone would complain that it hurt our eyes.

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