One of the earliest consumer internet options, AOL’s dial-up service was once the most common way for people to access the early web.
Today is October 1, 1993.
September is over.
The September that lasted 32 years…
Alas, the damage is done and there’s no going back.
So, when the last wagon wheel factory closed down, where there nostalgia pieces in the papers?
I guess not, I just searched and there are still a bunch of places making the wheels.Where am I going to get hand crafted dial up though
Fuck AOL they killed CompuServe.
Someone else remembers CompuServe?!
Back when your email address and username were: [email protected]
Good times!
I loved CompuServe, back in the day.
And Prodigy.
While I hated AOL for reasons, this is the end of an era. RIP
AOL will be remembered more fondly for things like this. But, nobody ever has a fond memory of the software AOL shoved out. It was clampware, unreliable and frequently crashed.
But they gave out nice coasters
Eh…I wouldn’t call them “nice”. They were ok. Wouldn’t put them on a nice table.
Before that, they gave out floppy disks. You could tape over the write protect hole and reuse them.
The early vibe coders.
With a robot beep It dialed one one ooh With a final screech It dialed one one ooh One one oh!
With AOL’s exit from dial-up, we are now down to three dial-up ISPs; NetZero, Juno and DSLExtreme.
As a worldnet user old school Juno always had this mystic. AOL was always a blind spot though.
Good night, sweet prince.
Alternatively
Several minutes of randomly pitched screeches
Random!? You just don’t speak computer!
Get off the phone!
Ah man I am saddened by this. I first got on the internet in 1997 at my house on a 14.4k modem using AOL. In 2001 I got cable internet and still used AOL a little. My career now is because learning to code by reading code from AOL Progs in Visual Basic 3.0. Fuck Steve Case!
