End Of An Era! 34 Years Later, AOL Is Finally Shutting Down Its Dial-Up Internet Services

AOL to end its most iconic service after more than 30 years

AOL and parent company Yahoo announced that users have just about six weeks to say goodbye to a near-forgotten relic of internet history.The company offered users assistance with its AOL plan and a phone number to call should they have questions, or perhaps need therapy, about the discontinued service.For about 32 years, AOL has offered users email addresses and internet access, and ultimately its own browser and messenger service, but now it is…

End of an era: AOL to discontinue its dial-up internet service after 30 years.

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End Of An Era! 34 Years Later, AOL Is Finally Shutting Down Its Dial-Up Internet Services

AOL‘s dial-up internet is finally taking its last lap this month and next. Yes, while maybe a dinosaur by today’s digital standards, dial-up is still around. But AOL says it’s officially pulling the plug on its service on Sept. 30.AOL shared the brief update on its support site. According to the Associated Press, dial-up internet services and the associated software are “optimized for older operating systems” and will be unavailable on AOL plans…

As AOL bins dial-up for good, it's impossible to fully state the impact it had on gaming and the internet - but we've tried

AOL is binning off its dial-up internet service after 30 years, which, frankly, is more surprising for the fact AOL still offered a dial-up internet service than for the fact it's closing it. Regardless, it's a milestone moment. AOL opened the doors of the internet for millions of people; its name was synonymous with it. And yes, I know that most of those people were Americans, the acronym AOL standing for America Online after all, but AOL did o…