AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service
WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast
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🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pat Sullivan here to remind you to stop putting screens on your gutters. |
| 0:03.5 | Better to schedule a free estimate with the local experts at gutter helmet. So you stay off the ladder. Visit gutter helmetindy.com with gutter helmet. You'll never clean your gutters again. gutter helmetindy.com. So did you see the AOL is ending their dial-up service? It still exists? Yeah. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Service is going to end September 30th. |
| 0:01.7 | Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. |
| 0:03.1 | You're telling me in 20th. Their dial-up service. It's just ending it. It still exists? Yeah. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. |
| 0:21.2 | Service is going to end September 30th. |
| 0:22.8 | Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. |
| 0:24.2 | You're telling me in 2025. |
| 0:25.8 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:27.5 | Are you talking about this noise? |
| 0:33.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.7 | Yeah. Yeah. |
| 0:43.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:46.8 | That's still a thing in 2025? |
| 0:47.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.2 | For some people, they announced they're going to discontinue their dial-up internet. |
| 1:14.3 | I mean, I can't even, I don't even have a landline phone anymore. Yeah, I mean, I don't even, Kev, do you even know what AOL is? Do you even, I mean, you're 30? Yeah, we had dial-up until I was like 10. Oh, you did? Yeah. So even 20 years ago, you had dial-up internet. Were you allowed to be on the internet? Yeah, I tried to use YouTube, but when my grandma would call it, it'd always kick me off the internet. |
| 1:29.6 | Okay, so I'm sure, obviously, most people hearing our voice would know what AOL was, but it was this, the kind of first mainstream version of the internet in which you had to have a phone line. |
| 1:29.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:33.7 | And you would plug your computer into this phone line. |
| 1:38.8 | And this program would then, it sounded like you were dialing a phone number and it would connect you to the internet. |
| 1:40.3 | Casey, don't ask me how I know this. |
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