Aol's Dial-up Internet Still Exists, But Not For Much Longer

It whitethorn person been decades since you past heard nan crunching screeches of connecting pinch dial-up Internet, but AOL said it will discontinue its dial-up work connected September 30, officially marking nan extremity of an era successful Internet history. As first spotted by PC Gamer, AOL made nan astonishing announcement successful a station buried successful its AOL Help pages. Along pinch nan dial-up service, AOL Dialer package and AOL Shield browser will besides beryllium discontinued by nan extremity of September.

It whitethorn travel arsenic a daze to astir that AOL still runs its dial-up Internet service, but immoderate thousands of users still trust connected this outdated method arsenic an affordable measurement to entree nan Internet successful much agrarian areas. However, these personification numbers successful nan "low thousands" are a acold outcry from AOL's heyday, which reportedly saw tens of millions of subscribers, astir apt acknowledgment to nan stacks of free proceedings CDs group would find successful their mailboxes. Nowadays, dial-up Internet fails to compete against nan likes of overmuch faster broadband options, which see cable, fibre and outer alternatives.

Even though AOL's dial-up work yet mislaid relevancy, it stuck astir for 34 years earlier gathering nan aforesaid destiny arsenic different '90s tech icons for illustration Blockbuster, Discmans and AOL Instant Messenger. Now, nan only clip you'll really perceive that iconic America Online serenade is done recreations connected social media.