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AOL to End Its Dial-up Service in September
It's the end of an online era: AOL will end its dial-up internet service next month after decades in use.
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end of an era. AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet next month[image or embed] -- Tom Warren (@tomwarren.co.uk) Aug 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
end of an era. AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet next month[image or embed]
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#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-11 03:33 PM | Reply | Funny: 2
Hope they help the two people still using it get connected.
#2 | Posted by mattm at 2025-08-12 10:42 AM | Reply
Bad news for the Drudge Retort, dial-up internet is the only access for much of the Drudge's lefty membership.
#3 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-08-12 11:56 AM | Reply
There's a football team that's dialing up your mom right now, Pedo Lover
#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-12 12:07 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1
Hope the farmers like satellite Internet
#5 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-08-12 05:59 PM | Reply
I never was an AOL customer, even though I had dial-up access back in the late 1970's.
Back then, 1200bps was great. If you didn't have local dialing access to a 1200bps number, then you either paid the "long distance" toll charges, or you settled for the local 300bps number.
But moving forward ...
2015 -- 2021: As part of Verizon [and beyond] en.wikipedia.org
... On May 12, 2015, Verizon announced plans to buy AOL for $50 per share in a deal valued at $4.4 billion. The transaction was completed on June 23. ... In July 2016, Verizon Communications announced its intent to purchase the core internet business of Yahoo!. Verizon merged AOL with Yahoo into a new company called "Oath Inc.", which in January 2019 rebranded itself as Verizon Media.[110] ... 2021 -- present: As part of an independent YahooI On May 3, 2021, Verizon announced it would sell 90 percent of its Verizon Media division to Apollo Global Management for $5 billion, becoming the second independent incarnation of Yahoo! Inc.[7] ...
In July 2016, Verizon Communications announced its intent to purchase the core internet business of Yahoo!. Verizon merged AOL with Yahoo into a new company called "Oath Inc.", which in January 2019 rebranded itself as Verizon Media.[110] ...
2021 -- present: As part of an independent YahooI
On May 3, 2021, Verizon announced it would sell 90 percent of its Verizon Media division to Apollo Global Management for $5 billion, becoming the second independent incarnation of Yahoo! Inc.[7] ...
R.I.P. America OnLine.
#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-12 07:23 PM | Reply
dial-up internet is the only access for much of the Drudge's lefty membership
You think so? My Gbps is higher than your annual salary, you toothless ----.
#7 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-08-12 09:58 PM | Reply
8-N-1
#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-12 10:04 PM | Reply
Horst doth protest too much, an AOL dial up user self identifies?
#9 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-08-13 03:12 PM | Reply
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