AOL believes that addressing the Year 2000 issue is an integral part of providing the best possible online experience for our members and business partners, which has always been our number one priority.

That's why AOL created a Year 2000 Task Force in 1997 to assess the Company's Y2K preparedness and to test all of its business and information systems.

The goal of AOL's Year 2000 program is to minimize the impact on our members and business partners from issues related to Year 2000. Through its task force, AOL has been testing both its hardware and software for Year 2000 compliance. To date, AOL has experienced few problems related to Year 2000 testing of its own hardware and software, and those issues are being addressed.

AOL's newest version, 5.0, is Y2K compliant and is available now at Keyword 5.0. It puts some of AOL's new convenience applications right on the first screen members see when logging on, including "You've Got Pictures" and "My Calendar." For information on how to make your software Y2K compliant now, click here now. For information on how to prepare at home for Y2K, go to the Computing Channel.

In addition to communicating with its members on Y2K, AOL is continuing to gather information from vendors, joint venture partners and content partners about their progress in identifying and addressing problems that their computer systems may face in correctly processing date information related to the Year 2000. As we continue to build AOL's infrastructure and add new components, Year 2000 issues will remain a priority.

Our Year 2000 Task Force will continue its efforts to prevent the millennium date change from causing any significant interruption in critical services or negative impact to our members' online experience.

Click here to review a list of Frequently Asked Questions regarding AOL's efforts.

-- Uncle Bob (UNCLB0B@Tminus28&counting.down), December 03, 1999

Answers

AOL's earlier disclosures this year made me nervouse enough to sign on with a backup ISP as part of my "preps". AOL claimed to still be assessing some processes early in 1999. Maybe they are caught up now, maybe not. I'll just wait and see next January - that is, if my computer still works.

-- Margaret J (janssm@aol.com), December 03, 1999.

Quote: "To date, [what year is it, again?] AOL has experienced few problems related to Year 2000 testing of its own hardware and software, ["Hey Frank, when I roll this here software ahead to 2000, it crashes."] and those issues are being addressed. ["So stop rolling it forward, dammit."]

Quote: ..."efforts to prevent the millennium date change from causing any significant interruption in critical services or negative impact to our members' online experience."

It's AOL; what is a 'significant interruption'? One day, one week, one month? And if you can't sign on to AOL, would any logical person call that a 'negative impact'?

Harl <--still laughing at the how good they are getting at not saying anything with as many words as possible.

PS Uncle Bob, you might want to take a look at *when* that was posted/last modified. :::We may be screwed even if everyone else on the planet is running business as usual.:::

-- harl (harlanquin@aol.hell), December 04, 1999.

Ha ha!That's a pat response say statement!probably key word "y2k"As an ex-aol tech support agent I find that particulary savory.

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), December 04, 1999.