AOL is killing its dial-up internet .

First introduced commercially in 1989 and made largely obsolescent in the 2000s by the spread of broadband, the company perhaps most associated with the technology will now stop offering it.

It remains unclear how many people are on such connections and why they might be using it.

In 2015, AOL’s dial-up service was being used by 2.1 million people. But CNBC reported in 2021 that the number was then in the “low thousands.”

The 2021 census in the U.S. found that 163,000 people were using dial-up, around 1 percent of the country’s population.

While it was slow and required connecting with specialised equipment that made the beeps and boops that are associated with the early Internet, dial-up allows users to connect using a traditional phone conn

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