From the “This is still a thing?” department comes the news that AOL is finally killing their dial up service in September:
AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet. This service will no longer be available in AOL plans. As a result, on September 30, 2025 this service and the associated software, the AOL Dialer software and AOL Shield browser, which are optimized for older operating systems and dial-up internet connections, will be discontinued.
This change will not affect any other benefits in your AOL plan, which you can access any time on your AOL plan dashboard. To manage or cancel your account, visit MyAccount.
Now, for those of you who are wondering why dial up is still a thing in the era of broadband, the reason is simple. There’s parts of the country that simply don’t have broadband access. Be it over cable, fibre, DSL, or even 5G due to cost or lack of infrastructure or both. Thus dial up is pretty much the only option. If you combine that with the fact that for however many people still connect to the Internet using dial up, this is pretty much the end of an era.
RIP dial up Internet.
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AOL To Kill Dial Up Service In September…. Wait… Dial Up Is Still A Thing?
From the “This is still a thing?” department comes the news that AOL is finally killing their dial up service in September:
AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet. This service will no longer be available in AOL plans. As a result, on September 30, 2025 this service and the associated software, the AOL Dialer software and AOL Shield browser, which are optimized for older operating systems and dial-up internet connections, will be discontinued.
This change will not affect any other benefits in your AOL plan, which you can access any time on your AOL plan dashboard. To manage or cancel your account, visit MyAccount.
Now, for those of you who are wondering why dial up is still a thing in the era of broadband, the reason is simple. There’s parts of the country that simply don’t have broadband access. Be it over cable, fibre, DSL, or even 5G due to cost or lack of infrastructure or both. Thus dial up is pretty much the only option. If you combine that with the fact that for however many people still connect to the Internet using dial up, this is pretty much the end of an era.
RIP dial up Internet.
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