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The move will pinch users in rural or remote areas not yet served by broadband infrastructure or satellite internet. Around 175,000 households still use dial-up internet in the US. www.wired.com/story/aol-sh...

wired.comAOL Will Shut Down Dial-Up Internet Access in SeptemberThe move will pinch users in rural or remote areas not yet served by broadband infrastructure or satellite internet. Around 175,000 households still use dial-up internet in the US.

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I remember the times years ago perhaps around 1990 when dial up was the ways I used AOL. Oh the memories. I still have a special place in my heart for AOL. It was before all the others.❤️

My grandmother was in one of those rural areas until just a few years ago. It has been incredibly frustrating watching money being shoveled out to expand broadband to rural areas and seeing the reality that over the past 20 years they actually expanded their service areas by about two blocks.