by AOL is set to close the Dial-Up Internet service that was once the symbol of internet connectivity after more than 40 years.
A commercial web page entitled “Dial-up internet to dopinged” states that the service will stop on 30 September.
The company says on the page that the closure follows a routine evaluation of its products and services.
The hum and knock of a dial -up modem was how many people were connected to the internet for the first time.
At its peak, a dial -up connection can manage up to 56 kilobits per second under ideal conditions, according to Apple Insider. Modern connections are measured into gigabits per second.
The AOL logo can be seen on the outside of the building with the headquarters of the companies in New York in New York 28 May 2009.
The consumer-friendly internet connection service offered what the technical news website called a “walled garden” internet experience through trial CDs in the early days of internet proliferation. According to Apple Insider, the company had 10 million customers by 1995.
New technologies and faster speeds shown in dial-up a connection of the past. As the technological landscape changed, the status of AOL did that too.
AOL merged in 2000 with Time Warner at the height of the internet bubble. The failure of the merger, as a result of which Time Warner led Aol in 2009, was so spectacular that it led to retrospect, both 10 and 15 years later.
In 2015, Verizon Aol bought $ 4.4 billion. At the time, according to CNBC, AOL still had 2.1 million dial-up customers.
When Apollo Global Management bought parts of Verizon Media Assets, including AOL in 2021, the Financial News-Outlet reported that dial-up users were “the low thousands”.
This article originally appeared on USA Today: AOL to end Dial-up Internet Service: here is when when
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