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End of an E-Era: AOL to End Dial-Up Internet Access

Sometime in the dying moments of September, what was once a daily habit for much of the online world will happen for the last time: a dial-up modem will screech its way to connecting to AOL. The Yahoo ...
FOX 10 Phoenix

AOL ending its dial-up internet service: Here's what to know

PHOENIX - In what can be described as the end of an era, the company formerly known as "America Online" is ending its dial-up internet service. According to the Associated Press, AOL rose to ...
New Orleans City Business

AOL’s dial up internet takes its last bow, marking the end of an era

It’s official: AOL’s dial-up internet has taken its last bow. AOL previously confirmed it would be pulling the plug on Tuesday (Sept. 30) — writing in a brief update on its support site last month ...
Yahoo

I've been on the Internet since 1994, and this is why AOL discontinuing dial-up makes me so sad

The classic dial-up handshake sounds melodic, scratchy, and harsh, and is inexorably associated with connection. It’s also now silent. AOL’s decision this week to finally end dial-up service is not ...
KCCI Des Moines

The end of an era: AOL to discontinue dial-up internet after 30 years

AOL, an internet pioneer that brought millions of Americans online for the first time, is discontinuing its dial-up service next month.The company that brought the internet to the masses in the 1990s ...
AOL

AOL hangs up the dial-up internet service (and sound) that defined an era

Older generations remember the sound of dial-up internet from the 90s and early 2000s, but what was once the soundtrack to an era is coming to an end. On Sept. 30, AOL would discontinue its dial-up ...