Vimeo lays off most of its staff, including the entire video team, just months after being bought by private equity.

I wonder what private equity has in store?

Bending Spoons purchased #AOL in October for $1.5 billion and #Vimeo in September for $1.38 billion. Right now, the same group is closing on #Eventbrite, the live events marketplace and website. That service allows users to browse, create, and promote local events. Last year, Meetup.

Before those purchases, they bought several companies that had to do with time tracking, invoicing, expense tracking, time-based reporting, etc.

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/vimeo-lays-off-most-of-its-staff-just-months-after-being-bought-by-private-equity-firm-184556023.html?src=rss

Back in 1993, I went to get another degree to just to get internet access, which was one of the few ways to get it back then. We had VAX and Unix, both fine platforms, hundreds of students would log in to one CPU from a terminal on campus or the house. We were connected to the world and communications were fast. I remember that's when the entire continent of Australia was connected by a pair of 2MB cables at the time. We had many distributed servers for news, email, IRC, gopher, etc, but it was lightning fast. Engineers at companies put tech documents on ftp servers. The internet was a big world library and the world was free. #JavaScript wasn't invented yet to slow us down or bury us in popups and advertisements. The entire internet was ad-free and advertising was a ban offense.

Then one morning I remember what would be known as #EternalSeptember, thanks to #AOL. And the #CanterSiegel spam happened. And the real cranks invaded. Many of us banned every .com address to regain sanity. This is when investors invaded the internet to hype it up into television quality. At least we still have #Wikipedia, #InternetArchive, and #Mastodon. Watching #Bluesky open up the floodgates to fascists was obvious to those of us who remember the past.

Back in 1993, I went to get another degree to just to get internet access, which was one of the few ways to get it back then. We had VAX and Unix, both fine platforms, hundreds of students would log in to one CPU from a terminal on campus or the house. We were connected to the world and communications were fast. I remember that's when the entire continent of Australia was connected by a pair of 2MB cables at the time. We had many distributed servers for news, email, IRC, gopher, etc, but it was lightning fast. Engineers at companies put tech documents on ftp servers. The internet was a big world library and the world was free. #JavaScript wasn't invented yet to slow us down or bury us in popups and advertisements. The entire internet was ad-free and advertising was a ban offense.

Then one morning I remember what would be known as #EternalSeptember, thanks to #AOL. And the #CanterSiegel spam happened. And the real cranks invaded. Many of us banned every .com address to regain sanity. This is when investors invaded the internet to hype it up into television quality. At least we still have #Wikipedia, #InternetArchive, and #Mastodon. Watching #Bluesky open up the floodgates to fascists was obvious to those of us who remember the past.

Internetpionier: Bending Spoons aus Italien übernimmt jetzt auch AOL

Die Einkaufstour von Bending Spoons geht weiter, das italienische Unternehmen kauft jetzt auch AOL. Übernommen werden die Website und der Mail-Provider.

https://www.heise.de/news/Internetpionier-Bending-Spoons-aus-Italien-uebernimmt-jetzt-auch-AOL-10965148.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#AOL #EMail #Übernahme #Wirtschaft #Yahoo #news

Internetpionier: Bending Spoons aus Italien übernimmt jetzt auch AOL

Die Einkaufstour von Bending Spoons geht weiter, das italienische Unternehmen kauft jetzt auch AOL. Übernommen werden die Website und der Mail-Provider.

https://www.heise.de/news/Internetpionier-Bending-Spoons-aus-Italien-uebernimmt-jetzt-auch-AOL-10965148.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#AOL #EMail #Übernahme #Wirtschaft #Yahoo #news

AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for roughly $1.5B

https://www.axios.com/2025/10/29/aol-bending-spoons-deal

#HackerNews #AOL #BendingSpoons #Sale #TechNews #Acquisition #BusinessDeal

I hear folks are thinking about heading back here from #Bluesky then off to #TwiX then re-join #AOL on dial-up. Life moves pretty frickin' fast on the Interwebbed Protocols, I suppose.

#SocialMedia #News #Mastodon

Feeling weirdly melancholy about the end of #AOL dial-up. 😞

As a very online American I don’t think AOL should cancel dial up until I’ve had a chance to use it in the US (I briefly used it in the UK, 25 years ago).

@ernie

https://tedium.co/2025/08/11/aol-dial-up-ending-retrospective/

Shame they already got rid of their homepage service a long time ago. Did anyone make a site using AOL website builder and move it somewhere it’s still online now?

#indieweb #aol

Ernie of Tedium on "[...] modems, AOL, and why legacy technology fades away rather than burns out."

https://tedium.co/2025/08/11/aol-dial-up-ending-retrospective

#AOL #modem #retrocomputing

How many companies are still providing dial-up?

AOL's dial-up internet still exists, but not for much longer

https://www.engadget.com/computing/aols-dial-up-internet-still-exists-but-not-for-much-longer-193004233.html?src=rss

#AOL#DialUp#Internet#Tech

AOL is ending dial-up internet access on September 30th. Related news: AOL was still offering dial-up internet. The service first launched in 1991 and survived acquisition by Verizon in 2015 and spinoff as a subdivision of Yahoo in 2021. https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued#AOL#DialUp

With AOL killing Dial Up Internet I was curious what still exists. I've found that there is over an estimated 160,000 people still using dial up in the US as their only connection (there are others using dial up as a fallback)

https://data.census.gov/table?q=internet+subscription

Earthlink quietly shut off dial up access in early 2024 (best I can tell).

Incredibly Juno and NetZero both still offer 10 free hours of dial up a month (and unlimited subscriptions).

#dialup #internet #aol#EarthLink #netzero

So apparently we are within the last 60 days of dial-up AOL being a thing 😕

The CD, the dial up noise, the excitement of downloading an MP3 in thirty minutes ...

https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued

#aol #tech

With AOL killing Dial Up Internet I was curious what still exists. I've found that there is over an estimated 160,000 people still using dial up in the US as their only connection (there are others using dial up as a fallback)

https://data.census.gov/table?q=internet+subscription

Earthlink quietly shut off dial up access in early 2024 (best I can tell).

Incredibly Juno and NetZero both still offer 10 free hours of dial up a month (and unlimited subscriptions).

#dialup #internet #aol#EarthLink #netzero