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Dial-Up Internet May Be History, but It Still Conditions Our Current Internet Experience
This week’s announcement that AOL will be discontinuing its dial-up internet access service on September 30 triggered a bout of nostalgia in me—an internet dinosaur who first dialed up to ARPANET in 1980. Most of today’s internet users have never experienced the electronic cacophony as modems performed their ritual handshake, or viewed online interaction as a timebound—and time-rationed—session, competing with voice calling demands. But much of …
AOL will permanently disconnect its Internet access service by modem on September 30th! The end of this sound and visual symbol of the era of the web pioneers marks the disappearance of a technological vestige that has introduced millions of users to online navigation, at the time of the pages that charged themselves in minutes and the famous "You-ve got-mail".
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