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AOL, the company that is previously formally known as America Online, stops its dial-up internet service after 34 years.
The service will be closed on 30 September, which means “the corresponding software, the AOL-Dialer software and the AOL-Schildbrowser, which are optimized for older operating systems and dial-up internet connections, will be stopped,” said the web service provider on his website.
“This change has no influence on the many other valued products and services to which these subscribers have access and enjoy as part of their plans. There is also no impact on the free AOL -E -mail accounts of our users,” the statement continued.
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An AOL logo is displayed on a smartphone in this photo. (Mateusz Slodkowski/Sopa Images/Lightrocket/Getty images)
According to Yahoo, very few customers still used the dial-up service, because broadband connections have become the norm.
The company said that AOL is still maintaining a strong customer base with traffic that grows from year to year.
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AOL stops his Basal Internet Service, which was a supporting pillar for users in the 1990s. (Douglas Graham/Congressional Quarterly/Getty images)
AOL, known for his “You got got mail”, buddyl lists and instant messaging services, dominated American households in the nineties when it was the leading internet provider. At the time, Dial-Up Access was the norm, whereby users connected to the internet via a sometimes long-term and noisy process.
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Aol, then known as America Online, became mainly accessible in the first years through telephone lines. (Gilles Mingasson / Liaison / Getty images)
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In 2000, Aol merged with Time Warner Inc. In a huge transaction that shook the telecommunications world. It eventually became an independent company in 2009 before Verizon acquired it in 2015.
Verizon sold both AOL and Yahoo – both under the Yahoo brand – to private equity company Apollo Global Management in 2021.
