Just one day after AOL announced it planned to give away its e-mail and Web services, along with free storage on its servers to lure new users, an additional incentive was added to the tune of one full year of AOL discs, delivered 3 a week through the first year of service.

“I’m sold!”, announced Ted Blaumbach of Detroit Michigan. “That’s like the icing on the cake.”

Prior to AOL’s offer of free storage and discs, many internet users were required to rely on alternate, more dependable storage and disc acquisition methods. “If I had large 20 minute videos of my cats that I wanted to share with my family or boyfriend, I would have to go to like some free file hosting site,” noted Becky McClasternick of San Antonio Texas. “And the only way I could get a steady supply of worthless, unwanted discs was to steal them from the dumpster at work. Now I can get both without getting tetanus!”

The online unit of Time Warner Inc. in September will start offering Internet users who pay nothing up to 5 gigabytes of server space for users to store music, illegal software, photos of their sister, or any of their large, worthless computer files. Starting approximately one week after the launch of the free file hosting service, AOL will launch the “Free AOL Discs for a Year” campaign by dropping over 10 thousand unopened AOL discs from airplanes along the beaches of South Florida and Southern California.

“It is our hope,” said AOL Marketing Executive Clive Berlergson, “That seeing the shimmering ocean-front covered in brightly wrapped AOL discs will remind potential customers that they too can have as many discs cover their home, office, or neighborhood community. By signing up with AOL, you are guaranteeing that you will always have a place to store your oversized, seldom used files. And you will always have an AOL disc within arm’s reach. That is our promise to our customers.”


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