For the end of today's show and the end of my three-day stint in Brian's seat,

I wanted to share a bit of news that you may have missed.

AOL's dial-up internet service,

a defining feature of my teenage years and that of other young gen Xers and older millennials is shutting down.

You will not be able to use a phone line and AOL software to get on the internet anymore.

And that means this iconic sound will fade deeper into our memories.

If that sound is familiar or nostalgic to you, listeners, please give us a call and share your AOL memories with me.

What do you remember about being on AOL?

What was your screen name?

How would you react when someone in your house picked up the phone and cut off your internet?

Give us a call, 212-433 W-N-YC,

212-433-9692, or send us a text.

As a writer at ink.com put it, that beep, beep, p-p-sh-per, was, quote,

the sound of the future arriving. It was the was the you know when I first got online in

1995 four years after AOL's service first debuted I was 17 at Great Neck South high school

and it took at least a minute maybe longer to log on the internet AOL came on CD-ROMs back then. They allotted

you a certain number of minutes online each month. So you'd get the CD-ROM mailed to you.

You would put it in the computer. You would download the software. You would plug in your telephone

cable and you know, you'd hope to get online imagine not being

online all the time every day and then carefully metering out how many minutes you use because like

the the CDs only gave you a certain number of minutes a month kids gather around and tell me about

the old days tell me about those CD-ROM discs that

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