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    1 year ago

    Yes. It was a promotional CD with the installer for the aol program and access phone numbers for dial up.

    They typically gave you a month or some amount of free hours as a promotion.

    There were millions of them sent out to encourage people to get on the internet at a time when home PCs were still relatively uncommon and internet more so.

    There is an ancient meme of a throne made entirely of ail CDs from the dark ages of the internet.

    https://boingboing.net/2006/03/13/howto-build-a-glowin.html