With the impression of a haze of memory, some may recall it fondly: AOL dial-up internet service where people of a certain age, associated with the World Wide Web, are approaching the end.
The company, also known for its “You Have an Email” greeting and CD Trial Discs (So many CDs), announced on its website.
“AOL has routinely evaluated its products and services and has decided to discontinue dial-up Internet. This service will no longer be available under the AOL plan,” the web provider said.
Without modern wireless signals, dial-ups connected to the internet using traditional telephone lines will produce distinctive, high-pitched chirp sounds in the process.
AOL, now part of Yahoo, has said that the dial-up service will be cancelled on September 30th, along with the AOL dialer software and the AOL Shield browser.
America Online was famous for its free trial discs. This seemed to have been increasing steam in households all over the US and beyond in the 1990s.
In 2006, the name was changed to AOL. Verizon sold AOL and Yahoo to private equity firm Apollo Global Management for $5 billion in 2021.
