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Though dial-up has mostly been replaced by faster and more reliable options, based on a 2019 survey, less than 0.2% of the U.S. population continues to use dial-up to access the internet. If you’ve ...
Before Wi-Fi blanketed our lives and smartphones kept us online 24/7, the patient, scratchy sound of AOL’s dial-up connection served as the gateway to the internet for its first explorers. Next ...
America Online, once the pioneer of dial-up internet is shutting down its dial up service, as of September 2025. Here's why that's happening.
Once the backbone of the consumer internet, AOL is set to shutter its dial-up internet service in September.
AOL’s remaining dial-up internet customers will sign off for the last time as the company is permanently shutting down the service that brought the internet to millions in the US during the early ...
Dial-up internet access may be history, but it still lives on in the genetics of our current internet culture.
AOL said its dial-up internet service, along with associated software, will be discontinued as of Sept. 30.
AOL, an internet pioneer that brought millions of Americans online for the first time, is discontinuing its dial-up service ...
AOL, which merged with Time Warner in 2000 in a deal widely deemed disastrous, boasted more than 30 million subscribers at the end of 2001.
AOL's iconic dial-up service will officially go offline on Sept 30th, marking the end of an era. Dial-up internet, which offered only 56kbps, was kept around for old computers without broadband ...
America Online, famous for its marketing campaigns, will shut down its dial-up internet service at the end of next month.