Happy Tuesday

Today was Tuesday 12/28/V3.1.

48 days away from the big day.

Well I was up at 2 o’clock messing around.  Doing nothing productive, but this is America & if I want to do that I can.

Well I ‘finally’ broke down and got my outfit for New Years Eve celebration(s).  I’ve been thinking about it since Sunday, I know.

Well you’re just going to have to wait to see what it is, unless you are already on the inside.  OH look it’s NOT a secret.

How was your day?

My dinner was delicious.

have a GREAT & WACKY Wednesday.

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One thing

If you stopped smoking you’d look pretty good.

Just ramblings from an independent party.

$35 for You’ve Got Mail

Those Annoying Promotional CDs Cost AOL a Ton of Money

Those Annoying Promotional CDs Cost AOL a Ton of MoneyRemember those annoying promotional CDs that AOL distributed in the 1990s? It felt like they were everywhere and apparently they weren’t cheap either. In fact, things like those discs may have cost AOL “about $35 per user.”

This curious tidbit was revealed when someone inquired about the cost of the CDs on the popular question-and-answer site Quora. Steve Case, who was AOL’s CEO during the promotional disc era, chimed in with the information:

How much did it cost AOL to distribute all those CDs back in the 1990’s?

A lot! I don’t remember the total spending but do recall in the early 1990s our target was to spend 10% of lifetime revenue to get a new subscriber. At that time I believe the average subscriber life was about 25 months and revenue was about $350 so we spent about $35 to acquire [subscribers]. Continue reading “$35 for You’ve Got Mail”

hey Ladies

Why is it that sometimes you are ‘in relationships’ with other ladies on facebook.

When you are NOT homosexual?

Is that the cool thing to do?