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    AOL to Unplug Its Dial-Up Web Service After 30 Years

    James EvendenBy James EvendenAugust 11, 20252 Mins Read
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    Greater than 30 years since AOL turned synonymous with floppy discs and CDs providing free web, its dial-up service has remained in operation. That each one adjustments subsequent month, when it would formally shut down the long-antiquated technique of getting on-line.

    “AOL routinely evaluates its services and products and has determined to discontinue Dial-up Web. This service will not be obtainable in AOL plans,” the corporate wrote in a press release just lately posted to its web site. “In consequence, on September 30, 2025 this service and the related software program, the AOL Dialer software program and AOL Defend browser, that are optimized for older working methods and dial-up web connections, might be discontinued.”

    This resolution may have simply been made a number of years in the past, as The New York Instances experiences that, in 2023, solely 163,000 households in america have been utilizing dial-up as their sole technique of web entry. For context, that determine represents solely 0.1% of web subscriptions nationwide.

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    AOL started in 1983 as an organization referred to as Management Video Company, providing on-line companies for the Atari 2600 online game console. It was then relaunched as Quantum Pc Providers in 1985, this time providing on-line companies first for the Commodore 64 and 128 computer systems after which Apple II and Macintosh computer systems.

    In 1989, this firm was renamed to America On-line after parting methods with Apple. It started providing dial-up service below that identify in 1991, serving as a fierce competitor to the likes of Prodigy and CompuServe.

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    Due to an promoting marketing campaign that broadly distributed floppy discs and CDs that gave entry to free trials, it turned the dominant dial-up service inside a number of years. AOL’s person base grew to 10 million by 1995 and doubled that quantity by 2000.

    At its peak, AOL was such part of popular culture that its new electronic mail notification sound impressed the title of Nora Ephron’s 1998 movie, You’ve Acquired Mail, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.

    With the rise of a lot quicker broadband web, nonetheless, AOL’s fortunes as an organization quickly dipped, because of an ill-advised merger with Time Warner in 2001. AOL was finally spun off in 2009 and later purchased by Verizon in 2015.

    In fact, this isn’t the primary AOL service that peaked within the ’90s to be discontinued. The corporate shuttered its on the spot messenger, AIM, in 2017.



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