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).
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?
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
Tim Chambers
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#AOL will #discontinue its #dialup #internet service on 30 September. While this change will not impact many people, it highlights the ongoing issue of limited broadband access in rural and Tribal areas. Efforts are being made to improve this situation through programmes like the Affordable Connectivity Programme. https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/aol-discontinues-its-dial-up-internet-and-were-just-surprised-they-even-offered-it-in-2025/?eicker.news #tech #media#news
#AOL will #discontinue its #dialup #internet service on 30 September. While this change will not impact many people, it highlights the ongoing issue of limited broadband access in rural and Tribal areas. Efforts are being made to improve this situation through programmes like the Affordable Connectivity Programme. https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/aol-discontinues-its-dial-up-internet-and-were-just-surprised-they-even-offered-it-in-2025/?eicker.news #tech #media#news
How many companies are still providing dial-up?
AOL's dial-up internet still exists, but not for much longer
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
Richard MacManus
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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).
Andrew Wooldridge 🚴♂️
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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
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).
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
So apparently we are within the last 60 days of dial-up AOL being a thing.
https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued
ht @mattl
