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by jkraker 3721 days ago
This will show my age a bit, but am I the only one that had a rush of memories about Juno email seeing this headline? Good old dial up email...

I'm probably just weird. At least the general population probably has no such associations with primitive email services.
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jlgaddis 3720 days ago
That was my first thought when I saw "Juno" as well.

At the time, we didn't have local dial-up numbers so I used it very extensively. Standard Internet access was very expensive (and I was a young teenager so my parents were paying for it) so I subscribed to dozens of mailing lists and read them all off-line, dialing up to Juno just to send and receive. Most of my "downloading" in those days was facilitated by Juno and "ftp by e-mail".

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ineedtosleep 3721 days ago
Ah yes, Juno. Along with NetZero and Freewwweb, I journeyed the path of the "grey"-side with free internet hacks (which just blocked the ads). My parents didn't yet see the value of internet -- nor did they have the extra cash for it.
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peterwwillis 3720 days ago
Free internet and "click this Ad to get paid $0.10" were some really interesting hacks back in the day. Oh, the money you could make with Visual Basic and a dial-up modem....
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dopeboy 3720 days ago
Don't forget the "cracks" you could download to hide the netzero ads.
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peterwwillis 3720 days ago
Some of us might have made them ;)
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Cheyana 3721 days ago
Juno still provides dialup service and free email. I just fixed a Juno email issue for a friend (which turned out to be their AVG blocking it). Not sure how this other company gets away with calling themselves Juno.
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jlgaddis 3720 days ago
They're in a different space / industry.

Trademarks exist to prevent confusion between similar products. Juno, the free dial-up and e-mail provider and Juno the taxi/transportation(?) company are very different.

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Cheyana 3720 days ago
I guess it couldn't hurt the older Juno either, since people may google Juno to look for it and poke around the Juno website looking for the app for ridesharing.
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robocaptain 3720 days ago
You may be weird, but not for this reason. :)

Juno brings back lots of memories for me as well. I remember having a very hard time convincing everyone it was 'free'.

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ch4ch4 3721 days ago
Ha! I had the same thought as well.
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