Try this link for the Old AOL Classic look:
http://www.aol.com/?src=classic
I’m not sure exactly when AOL brought the Classic Look back (yes, they really did). I’m only sure that it wasn’t before early December. I got a comment alerting me to the fact today:
Try this link for the Old AOL Classic look
They are the rudest most useless pice of Sh*t excuse
of a servie provider on the net period.
Dont ever ever use aol they cant evan offer a service and
there staff just get angry when u confront them with this fact!!!
This is a sure thing for going back to classic aol: http://www.aol.com/?goback
(note: if you clear your cookies or have a malfunction, you will revert to the new aol. Save this address.)
It doesn’t work for me. I don’t get the Classic AOL page with that link.
Then again, I’m in Firefox in Private Browsing Mode with third-party cookies blocked and History disabled, so maybe AOL’s settings for that page to work are clashing with my browser’s setup – so I’ll check in other browsers (I have every major Windows browser out there, fully updated) just to be sure, and I’ll edit this comment to indicate success if I have any luck with it.OK, I was going to update this comment only if the link worked in any browser, because I figured it must, given your enthusiasm for it, but now I’m updating simply because it doesn’t. I just tried it in Opera 11, Safari 5, IE 9 Beta, and of course, I already ran it through Firefox, but no luck. So I decided to look for an antecedent to your advice on the ‘Net and found this:
http://aolanswers.com/questions/computers_internet_273623843414745/hope_answer_question_tried_asked_735827197531104
While I’m tempted to think the AOL reps who said this link works were just blowing smoke up people’s asses, that can’t be if this is legit, so the answer must be that 1) the link only works in AOL browsers and/or 2) the link no longer works, period. Oh well.
As I type (2/5/2011) the goback link doesn’t work any longer, although it did for quite a while. However the classic link does at least make it better. I suspect the goback link has been permanently removed, because I clear cookies etc regularly and it has always kept the old look until today, at least for me.
IE 8.
The classic link makes it look – to my eyes, anyway – I guess I would need the Wayback Machine to see any difference – exactly the way the AOL home page used to look before
Timmy hired all those cutesy designersAOL “updated” it.When I sign in with the software I have no problems with it pulling up the classic look.