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AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet access (arstechnica.com)
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After decades of connecting Americans to its online service and the Internet through telephone lines, AOL recently announced it is finally shutting down its dial-up modem service on September 30, 2025. The announcement marks the end of a technology that served as the primary gateway to the World Wide Web for millions of users throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.

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[–] 44 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I speed limited my kids internet to 56kbps to make them go do chores. At first they complained that it broke everything. Later they were finding the most text based sites and waiting for them to load. They learnt and adapted.

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