AOL ditching dial-up service, a relic of the internet in the ’90s and early ’00s
In the misty impressions of memory, some can even recall it with emotion: the AOL Dial-up Internet service that those of a certain age associated with the World Wide Web are coming to an end.
The company, also known by its greeting “You Got Got Mail” and the CD – CD test discs – have made the announcement on its website.
“AOL regularly assesses its products and services and has decided to stop Internet Dial-up. This service will no longer be available in AOL plans,” said the web provider.
In the absence of modern -day wireless signals, the numbering connected to the Internet using a conventional telephone line, issuing a distinctive and acute tower sound in the process.
AOL, who is now part of Yahoo, said that the numbering service, as well as the AOL Dialer software and the AOL Shield browser, will be interrupted on September 30.
America Online was famous for his free test discs, which seemed to be everywhere in the 1990s when the Internet won steam in households in the United States and beyond.
He changed his name to AOL in 2006. Verizon sold AOL and Yahoo to the Apollo Global Management in-investment company for $ 5 billion in 2021.
