Wow this is one of those instances where I’m simultaneously surprised something still exists and also find it to make a lot of sense that it still exists.
YOU’VE GOT MAIL!
Your mailbox is full!
Rip my pcmcia modem card 😭
Telephony still exists! It’s still good, it’s still good!
Fitting that it’s ending in (eternal) September.
Deep cut appreciated and approved of.
AOL… America Offline
… In the U.S., for instance, the latest government census data indicates approximately a quarter of a million remaining dial-up holdouts.
One of the natural successors for internet connectivity in hard-to-reach places is satellite, with around eight million subscribers in the U.S. …
AOL was dead to me the day they dropped support for Neverwinter Nights.
Goodbye!
Wow 34 Years of Dialup. Who still uses dial up? I guess that naive of me and is coming from a place of privelege.
But still dial up??!
If you live in a rural area, it seems plausible
Even simple pages are now at least 1-2MB big. News pages without an ad blocker and Autoplay videos can easily try to download 10 or more MB per page load. On 56kbits dial up, 10MB will take about 25 mins in the best case.
Yea I guess so. Man that must be difficult.
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After it is debut?
back in the early 00s I used to do AOL tech support. Even then a lot of people were on cable or DSL. Vast majority of calls we got were from people out in the boonies or the elderly so it doesn’t surprise me that there are still a good chunk of people on dialup.
Actually by that point most of our calls weren’t even for Dial Up. the thing with AOL support back then was if the user also had other computer issues unrelated to AOL that they brought up while on the line with us we HAD to address them and try to do support for it. Callers would discover this fact and use AOL tech support as a defacto go to tech support for ALL computer issues. They’d start off with some random easy to fix (they knew how to fix) dialup issue and then would say “oh wow you fixed it, I wish you could also help me with this problem I’ve been having for awhile with…” and yup, we’d roll our eyes and say “oh, what what’s wrong?” A good chunk of my calls, believe it or not, would be for printer issues.
Hell, I’m sure there are still some places that only have dialup.
I still use my old aim account as my spam email email address. Any business asks for my email, they get that one. There’s like 5,000 unread emails in there. It keeps my actual email uncluttered and not full of spam. It’ll be a sad day when they close down those servers, then I’ll have to to dust off the ole Hotmail account lol
No more free AOL disks? AWWWW
I miss the old internet.
What?
