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I have an older friend I help from time to time. When he or one of his family get a new computer, when something breaks, etc.

His wife is still on AOL to this day. Their ISP is Comcast, they all use the newest windows and she has a few applications installed other than AOL. But 95% of her time on the computer is on AOL. She just can't see doing it any other way after using it for over 20 years.

I learned way more than I ever wanted to about AOL under the hood helping her through a few hardware upgrades.

I'm surprised it even works at all at this point. My mom was using Photoshop 6.0 (18 years old!!!) until very recently when my parents upgraded their computer to Windows 10, with which it is not compatible.

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