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AOL Dial-Up Internet Service to End After 34 Years

Foxglove9 said:
Still using my AOL email account from 1993. Glad that’s not going away (yet)
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I lately put my first AOL email account into Apple Mail and it also still worked but it was empty. Not sure if I deleted it myself. I needed to do some recovery process a few years ago because my password only had 5 letters and there was no phone number or so.

I think there was a mail about a change a few weeks ago. I hope it's still there and I didn't need to accept any new TOS or something like that. It was in Tahoe before i downgraded. I could try it here again.

I might have an old Thunderbird backup somewhere with all my old accounts and mails, most accounts don't exist anymore. Not sure if it's still there.
 
Naildown said:
Goodbye!

I worked for one of the international joint ventures in the 1990's... fun fact, remember "Internet Explorer by AOL"? The AOL installer would re-brand a users Internet Explorer and users HATED it. Anyway, we got so many complaints we had to make a tool to remove the branding if someone complained. Internal codename: unf**k.exe :) I'll write a book one day...
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A lot of ISPs did that back in the day. I remember EarthLink doing that.
 
AOL definitely existed before 1991. I know I signed up while still in college as I remember a friend helping me decide on my username. I remember being a “charter member” and was promised something like 20% off as long as I subscribed. I would have had to have signed up before August 1990. Reading the Wikipedia article on AOL, it sounds like it became known under that name in late 1989 but was Mac only. That’s probably when I first signed up. 1991 was the launch of the PC version and when they really started to grow.

I got my American Airlines frequent flyer number through AOL as that was also the user name for the Eaasy Sabre travel service. I also signed up for my first brokerage account through AOL, and still have that account with E*trade.
 
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About 5 years ago, I found out my parents were still paying for an AOL account (e.g. dialup), in order to keep my mom's email address - even though aol e-mail had been free on the website for.... decades(?).. and they had broadband internet.

They were paying something like $30 or $40 a month for it...
 
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Did not know that dial up service existed even today in US. Remember using dial up internet many years ago. Compared to that, the speeds with my fiber connection are extremely fast.
 
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gbc204 said:
If you ask me--and I love being able to do everything on the internet--the world would probably be a better place if internet access had never advanced past hourly-billed AOL dial-up.
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Social media and its vanity-ridden, knee-jerk reactions have destroyed civilization; not the Internet as such.
 
OH man I just remember. When I first signed up for AOL it was under 100,000 users back then. First with BB with fellow Geeks back then...Compuserve then AOL... lol
 
Donkey Man said:
Social media and its vanity-ridden, knee-jerk reactions have destroyed civilization; not the Internet as such.
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I wouldn't say that they've destroyed civilization. Rather, they've demonstrated that we, as a people, are maybe not nearly so civilized as we sometimes pretend to be.

A man shows his true character by how he treats people when he is certain there will be no repercussions to his actions.
 
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