Well, AOL’s dial-up internet service outlasted Skype. Who had that one on their bingo card for 2025? AOL, or America Online as it was known by people who had time for all those syllables in the go-go ’90s, was the service that gently coaxed a nation online.

It may seem quaint now, but most people had never had to figure out how to get online. They didn’t grow up with the knowledge, and it was also a little trickier back in the ’90s than it is now. And before broadband internet took over, you had to get online through a phone land line.

It was called dial-up internet, and after September 30, AOL is finally heaving it out onto the curb and discontinuing support of dial-up over AOL, in much the way that most of us did so two decades ago.

For those who want a blast of nostalgia, or those wh

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