{"id":74794,"date":"2025-08-11T14:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/74794\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T14:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:02:07","slug":"aol-cuts-ties-with-its-past-as-it-finally-ditches-dial-up-internet-services-after-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/74794\/","title":{"rendered":"AOL cuts ties with its past as it finally ditches dial-up internet services after decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AOL. Once the biggest name in internet service connectivity is ditching dial-up.<\/p>\n<p>For many of you, this may come as a surprise to learn that AOL has still been offering dial-up. The internet service is a vestige of the early days of the world-wide-web.<\/p>\n<p>America Online is a pioneering internet services company that played a key role in popularizing online access in the 1990s and early 2000s. <\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1985, AOL became famous for its dial-up internet service, user-friendly interface, and iconic &#8220;You&#8217;ve got mail&#8221; notification. It helped millions of Americans get online, offering email, chat rooms, news, and entertainment. <\/p>\n<p>You may remember in the 1990&#8217;s, the familiar, unmistakable sound of the dial-up connection was the signature tone of getting online.<\/p>\n<p>But as of 2023, only about 1% of U.S. households with internet subscriptions were using only dial-up.<\/p>\n<p>AOL will stop offering it on Sept. 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AOL. Once the biggest name in internet service connectivity is ditching dial-up. For many of you, this may&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[50829,52494,25517,53257,16651,174,49233,53258,74,53259],"class_list":["post-74794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-1990s","tag-aol","tag-connectivity","tag-dial-up","tag-email","tag-internet","tag-internet-services","tag-online-access","tag-technology","tag-u-s-households"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}