The AOL logo is shown on a wall of the company’s New York office, on Monday, May 12, 2008. Mark Lennihan/AP
Mark Lennihan/AP
Beep, bop, boop, boooopp, scrsssshh…
Such was the sound of AOL’s dial-up service, a marker of trying to connect to the internet in the 1990s. Now the company has announced it’s getting rid of dial-up.
“AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet,” its website says.
The service will run until Sep. 30. NPR’s efforts to reach AOL for comment were unsuccessful.
What is dial-up?
Dial-up uses a modem to convert