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
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@ernie Wait, does that mean the CDs are all going to be useless coasters?
@ernie oh noo,wie kommt denn Bobbele dann ins Internet?
@ernie @mattl
NetZero still has us covered.
NetZero still has us covered.
https://www.netzero.net/start/www.do?action=/dialup/&action=/dialup/&&sep=common
@adisonverlice I came here to make this joke but of course somebody was already dialed-in on that one
@adisonverlice that got dialed-up real fast.
@ernie Is there nothing 2025 will not rip from our hands?
@ernie oh no, my many disks are now worthless ☹️
@ernie
So I can get rid of the CD-ROMs in all the closets?
And the magazines and mailers they came in?
But maybe not?
@ernie @mattl I remember this being my first provider in Germany. Starting with Dialup and a Zyxel USB Modem, later by ISDN (and when nobody needed the phone, bundling the channels). Squeaky Duck like software that behaved in weird ways, but the Internet was raw and open then. Reminiscing about online friends that I never met and lost contact. Also, truckloads of installer-CDs, they were everywhere, a pest.... Good times, but today nobody in their right mind would use AOL.
Who's still rolling on POTS?
@ernie
POTS internet = People living in remote sparse regions, who are morally opposed to Musk. It is an admittedly small demographic but not zero.
POTS internet = People living in remote sparse regions, who are morally opposed to Musk. It is an admittedly small demographic but not zero.
@ernie I've kept my POTS telephone line in case of emergencies. I'm not using POTS for internet access.
@ernie Me, though just for actual phone service and not for internet.
@ernie I have one. Can’t remember the number and I keep the hamburger phone unplugged but it costs me $1 a month.
@ernie In fact, on my upcoming usual Monday network radio tech segment, I'll probably be slamming AT&T for their behavior in respect to landlines here in California.
@lauren @ernie not surprising they suck. Also in CA so I’ll share my fun story that ~ 8 years ago I attempted to put a pots line back in my rebuilt house as a backup. AT&T simply couldn’t figure out how to do it. I had the wires to the house, they couldn’t place the order & didn’t have people who know even what to do. Yet most of my elderly neighbors have working lines. Post Pacbell the system rots like a Dharma Initiative station from Lost still working somehow but mostly abandoned.
@ernie Multiple lines.
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