Ancient AOL Disk and Memorabilia Museum

The T-Shirts of AOL Past and Present

When you work at AOL, or at least when I worked there, you got a lot of t-shirts. And sweatshirts, polo shirts, denim shirts, tank tops, etc., etc., etc...once, even, a leather jacket. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Here then we tell the history of AOL, formerly Quantum Computer Services, in a sartorial pictorial, if you will.

AppleLink Personal Edition T-shirt

front of t-shirt

back of t-shirt

(AppleLink Personal Edition was an online service that Quantum/AOL created for Apple Corporation. But things didn't work out and it went bye-bye in the early 90s. Out of its ashes, AOL was born).

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PC-Link: A T-Shirt from "Allenbash" (One of my first jobs at AOL was as People Connection producer for PC-Link, Quantum/AOL's online service for the PC -- specifically Tandy PC's, but it worked for "IBM compatibles" in general). This was signed by my PC-Link friends like DADDIO, RadioBob and Gwydian...most of them hosts of People Connection chat rooms).

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AOL "Beach Blast" T-shirt

This is the shirt they gave out at AOL's 1992 Company Picnic.

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AOL "Beach Blast" T-shirt:

Front of the shirt they gave out at AOL's 1992 Company Picnic.

Q-Link Sweatshirt

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PC-Link: A T-Shirt from "Allenbash"

(One of my first jobs at AOL was as People Connection producer for PC-Link, Quantum/AOL's online service for the PC -- specifically Tandy PC's, but it worked for "IBM compatibles" in general). This was signed by my PC-Link friends like DADDIO, RadioBob and Gwydian...most of them hosts of People Connection chat rooms).

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AOL version 3.0 T-shirt

(At the time, this was the hot new version of AOL. I think one of the chiefly touted features of it was the way-cool background graphics/wallpaper on the service...a change from the plain vanilla backgrounds of yore. My how things have changed, huh?)