{"id":13972,"date":"2025-08-11T13:34:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T20:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13972"},"modified":"2025-08-24T13:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:37:13","slug":"dial-up-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/08\/11\/dial-up-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Dial-up Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2874277\/aol-dial-up-says-goodbye-without-apple-it-might-not-have-changed-the-world.html?utm_date=20250811212116&amp;utm_campaign=Macworld%20Daily&amp;utm_content=slotno7-pushheadline-AOL%20dial-up%20says%20goodbye.%20Without%20Apple%2C%20it%20might%20not%20have%20changed%20the%20world&amp;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Macworld%20Daily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Adestra&amp;aid=68621&amp;huid=9bc3a8b8-0f33-4b03-b05d-6be34b8558f7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from MacWorld<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AOL dial-up says goodbye. Without Apple, it might not have changed the world<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The longtime service took root on Apple computers 40 years ago. Here&#8217;s the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/author\/rloyola\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Roman Loyola<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dial Up Internet Sound for 1 Hour - Biggest 90s Nostalgia EVER\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nAUeURa7l38?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You young whippersnappers out there, pull up a chair and let me tell you about a more innocent time. Way before you could connect to the internet out of thin air, you had to use what was called a dial-up connection. A box called a modem was connected to your computer, and it used a phone line to call a service provider that would give you access to a bulletin-board service (BBS; think of a BBS as an early form of Reddit). It took a few years before the BBS gave way to the web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were several dial-up service providers, but there was one that ruled them all: America Online, which became widely known as AOL. However, the days of AOL as a dial-up service provider are now over. According to an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=111346X1569486&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https:\/\/help.aol.com\/articles\/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued&amp;xcust=1-1-2874277-1-0-0-0-0&amp;sref=https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2874277\/aol-dial-up-says-goodbye-without-apple-it-might-not-have-changed-the-world.html?utm_date=20250811212116&amp;utm_campaign=MacworldDaily&amp;utm_content=slotno7-pushheadline-AOLdial-upsaysgoodbye.WithoutAppleitmightnothavechangedtheworld&amp;utm_term=Editorial-MacworldDaily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Adestra&amp;aid=68621&amp;huid=9bc3a8b8-0f33-4b03-b05d-6be34b8558f7\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AOL support document<\/a>, the company (it\u2019s now part of Yahoo, which is owned by Apollo Global Management) has determined that the dial-up service will end on September 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2874277\/aol-dial-up-says-goodbye-without-apple-it-might-not-have-changed-the-world.html?utm_date=20250811212116&amp;utm_campaign=Macworld%20Daily&amp;utm_content=slotno7-pushheadline-AOL%20dial-up%20says%20goodbye.%20Without%20Apple%2C%20it%20might%20not%20have%20changed%20the%20world&amp;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Macworld%20Daily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Adestra&amp;aid=68621&amp;huid=9bc3a8b8-0f33-4b03-b05d-6be34b8558f7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at MacWorld<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from MacWorld AOL dial-up says goodbye. Without Apple, it might not have changed the world The longtime service took root on Apple computers 40 years ago. Here&#8217;s the story. By\u00a0Roman Loyola You young whippersnappers out there, pull up a chair and let me tell you about a more innocent time. 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