With a final screech, AOL's dial-up service goes silent

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• Talaraine@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  While I hated AOL for reasons, this is the end of an era. RIP

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  • Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    AOL will be remembered more fondly for things like this. But, nobody ever has a fond memory of the software AOL shoved out. It was clampware, unreliable and frequently crashed.

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But they gave out nice coasters

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    • meliante@lemmy.pt ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The early vibe coders.

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• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Today is October 1, 1993.

  September is over.

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  • very_well_lost@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The September that lasted 32 years…

    Alas, the damage is done and there’s no going back.

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  • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can finally wake me up

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• popekingjoe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Good night, sweet prince.

  Alternatively

  Several minutes of randomly pitched screeches

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  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Random!? You just don’t speak computer!

    oona.windytan.com/posters/dialup-final.png

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    • popekingjoe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Image

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    • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh stewardess; I speak modem.

      Eeee eooooooo bong bong scrrrrrr

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• Cobrachicken@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fuck AOL they killed CompuServe.

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  • TheFlopster@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Someone else remembers CompuServe?!

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    • cman6@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Back when your email address and username were: 583947690@compuserve.com

      Good times!

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    • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And Prodigy.

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    • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I loved CompuServe, back in the day.

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• aceshigh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Get off the phone!

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• Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  With AOL's exit from dial-up, we are now down to three dial-up ISPs; NetZero, Juno and DSLExtreme.

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  • lordnikon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    As a worldnet user old school Juno always had this mystic. AOL was always a blind spot though.

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• aceshigh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Goodbye

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• Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So, when the last wagon wheel factory closed down, where there nostalgia pieces in the papers?
  I guess not, I just searched and there are still a bunch of places making the wheels.

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  • Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Where am I going to get hand crafted dial up though

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    • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The Serial Port has some content that may scratch that itch.

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    • CarrmynCarnage@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Gimme 20 bucks and I’ll come over and screech dialup noises at you while you browse.

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  • Waldelfe@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Since there are still horse drawn wagons around there are also still manufacturers for wagon wheels. But there were several opinion pieces in newspapers whenever a new technology took over. I’m sure you can find plenty for the time when cars became mainstream.

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• mercano@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Goodbye

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• demizerone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ah man I am saddened by this. I first got on the internet in 1997 at my house on a 14.4k modem using AOL. In 2001 I got cable internet and still used AOL a little. My career now is because learning to code by reading code from AOL Progs in Visual Basic 3.0. Fuck Steve Case!

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  • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Steve Case!

    Now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.

    A long time.

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• WanderWisley@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  o7

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• asteriskeverything@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  With a final screech It dialed one one oh With a robot beep It dialed one one oh One one oh!

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