End Of An Era! 34 Years Later, AOL Is Finally Shutting Down Its Dial-Up Internet Services

End Of An Era! 34 Years Later, AOL Is Finally Shutting Down Its Dial-Up Internet Services

AOL‘s dial-up internet is finally taking its last lap this month and next. Yes, while maybe a dinosaur by today’s digital standards, dial-up is still around. But AOL says it’s officially pulling the plug on its service on Sept. 30.AOL shared the brief update on its support site. According to the Associated Press, dial-up internet services and the associated software are “optimized for older operating systems” and will be unavailable on AOL plans…

As AOL bins dial-up for good, it's impossible to fully state the impact it had on gaming and the internet - but we've tried

AOL is binning off its dial-up internet service after 30 years, which, frankly, is more surprising for the fact AOL still offered a dial-up internet service than for the fact it's closing it. Regardless, it's a milestone moment. AOL opened the doors of the internet for millions of people; its name was synonymous with it. And yes, I know that most of those people were Americans, the acronym AOL standing for America Online after all, but AOL did o…