AOL is shutting down dial-up service that introduced homes on the Internet across America.
The firm’s dial-up offer connects to the Internet through a phone line and currently exists only in the US and Canada.
Launched over 30 years ago, AOL dial-up was known for its chirpi wheiring start-up sound, but has long been replaced by options.
According to government estimates of 2023, less than 300,000 people in the US reported to have only one dial-up internet connection, while over 300 million with broadband service.
The company said in a notice to the US and Canadian customers on Friday, “AOL regularly evaluates its products and services and has decided to shut down the dial-up internet.”
This service will no longer be available in AOL schemes till September 30, the firm said.
“Thanks to memories RIP,” AOL co-founder Steve case wrote, who presided over the development of the firm in the 1990s.
The company was known for interesting to customers by mailing them Free test disc And at one point About 40% of the time ownership was claimed which the Americans spent online,
AOL, which merged with Time Warner in 2000, was widely disastrous, boasted in a deal More than 30 million customers in late 2001,
But its leadership had already begun, as broadband Prasad started receiving traction from rivals. In early 2003, the obituri for dial-up service started, As declared in a Wall Street Journal article: “This is official. Dial-up is dying.”
In Britain, AOL was topped from the top position as Internet service provider in 1999. It then Sold his UK arm in 2006,
Time Warner exited AOL in 2009. It was acquired by Verizon in 2015, which saw the value in its mobile technology business and later merged with Yahoo.
Today, AOL and Yahoo are owned by Apollo Global.
