AOL ends dial-up service, closing the book on ’90s internet era

Microsoft retired video calling service Skype just earlier this year — as well as Internet Explorer back in 2022. And in 2017 ...

Why Gen Z wants retro dial-up connections – and how the internet could be driven to extinction

The ‘you’ve got mail’ era already feels like a lifetime ago, but in the week dial-up connections are finally turned off by AOL, Liam Murphy-Robledo talks to the pioneers of commercial dial-up internet ...
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AOL is shutting down dial-up internet after 34 years

Remember dial-up internet? One of its biggest providers says it's time to retire the service – one of the first ways people could get online – after more than three decades. American online service ...

AOL hangs up the dial-up internet service (and sound) that defined an era

Last month, a company webpage titled "Dial-up Internet to be discontinued" stated that the service would be discontinued.
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Say bye-bye to the beeps and boops of AOL's dial-up internet service

Beep, bop, boop, boooopp, scrsssshh… Such was the sound of AOL's dial-up service, a marker of trying to connect to the internet in the 1990s. Now the company has announced it's getting rid of dial-up.
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I've been on the Internet since 1994, and this is why AOL discontinuing dial-up makes me so sad

The classic dial-up handshake sounds melodic, scratchy, and harsh, and is inexorably associated with connection. It’s also now silent. AOL’s decision this week to finally end dial-up service is not ...
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AOL is ending dial-up internet after 34 years

AOL will discontinue its iconic dial-up internet service on September 30, 2025, ending a 34-year run that defined the early days of the Internet. The decision closes a nostalgic chapter for millions ...