But I’ve barely made in a dent in my free trial cd-roms!
AOL is finally shutting down its dial-up internet service
Submitted 5 days ago by zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@beehaw.org
https://apnews.com/article/aol-shuts-down-dial-up-internet-275a81f8a725619663437350b7c7ed36
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 5 days ago
Great, so those living in ultra-rural areas because they can’t afford anything better will now have to pony up 10x the cost for satellite Internet, or become even more disconnected from the rest of the world than they already are.
tal@lemmy.today 5 days ago
According to this, as of 2022, in the US, only 175k households were still using dial-up Internet service from any provider. That’s not a lot of people.
reviews.org/…/how-many-us-households-are-without-…
I’m guessing that many of those realistically have other landline options and just haven’t switched.
kagis
The amusingly-named-given-the-context dslextreme.com apparently continues to offer nationwide dial-up service.
www.dslextreme.com/dialup/residential
termus@beehaw.org 5 days ago
It’s gotta take them a least a week just to load their yahoo home page on dialup. What are they even able to access on the web these days at 56k?
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 5 days ago
I don’t know, but if I had to guess: email, bank, & government sites are probably the bulk of their use. Those pages don’t change all that often, so once they’re in the browser cache they’ll probably still load at reasonable enough speeds for their use I’d imagine. Those people probably see it as a tool to get certain things done, and that’s about it. They’re likely much older, and so never had much interest in being terminally online.