1d ago

With a final screech, AOL's dial-up service goes silent

www.nbcnews.com

One of the earliest consumer internet options, AOL's dial-up service was once the most common way for people to access the early web.

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Goodbye
o7
Today is October 1, 1993.
September is over.
- You can finally wake me up
- The September that lasted 32 years...
  Alas, the damage is done and there's no going back.
While I hated AOL for reasons, this is the end of an era. RIP
- AOL will be remembered more fondly for things like this. But, nobody ever has a fond memory of the software AOL shoved out. It was clampware, unreliable and frequently crashed.
  
  But they gave out nice coasters
  
  The early vibe coders.
Fuck AOL they killed CompuServe.
- Someone else remembers CompuServe?!
  
  Back when your email address and username were: 583947690@compuserve.com
  Good times!
  
  And Prodigy.
  
  I loved CompuServe, back in the day.
Good night, sweet prince.
Alternatively
Several minutes of randomly pitched screeches
So, when the last wagon wheel factory closed down, where there nostalgia pieces in the papers?
I guess not, I just searched and there are still a bunch of places making the wheels.
- Since there are still horse drawn wagons around there are also still manufacturers for wagon wheels. But there were several opinion pieces in newspapers whenever a new technology took over. I'm sure you can find plenty for the time when cars became mainstream.
- Where am I going to get hand crafted dial up though
  
  The Serial Port has some content that may scratch that itch.
  
  Gimme 20 bucks and I'll come over and screech dialup noises at you while you browse.
With AOL's exit from dial-up, we are now down to three dial-up ISPs; NetZero, Juno and DSLExtreme.
- As a worldnet user old school Juno always had this mystic. AOL was always a blind spot though.
Get off the phone!
Goodbye
Ah man I am saddened by this. I first got on the internet in 1997 at my house on a 14.4k modem using AOL. In 2001 I got cable internet and still used AOL a little. My career now is because learning to code by reading code from AOL Progs in Visual Basic 3.0. Fuck Steve Case!
With a robot beep It dialed one one ooh With a final screech It dialed one one ooh One one oh!

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