AOL closes its services after 34 years

AOLThe telephone internet finally takes its last embrace this month. Yes, although dinosaurs are according to digital standards today, the request is still present. But AOL says she officially pulled the plug on September 30.

AOL shared the brief update on its support site. According to Associated PressThe Internet and the associated program for the “older operating systems” will be improved and will be not available on AOL plans.

“AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and decided to stop the internet for the phone,” AOL wrote in a brief update.

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Do you remember this Internet?

The AOL, which was previously America, has provided many families to the World Wide Web for the first time when it launched the telephone service decades ago. It became really common in the nineties and early first decade of the twentieth century, with Internet cafes from home systems and home systems.

The internet service at the old school was known as the Al -Safir and Al -Sinin chain that was heard over the phone. It was part of connecting your computer to the Internet. The millennium generation may remember the frustration of the web launch if anyone else at home needs the ground line phone for another call! AOL also did not play from marketing, as he sent an endless bombardment from CDs to announce free experiences.

In the end, broad and wireless domain shows appeared and rose to dominance. This axis was canceled all the dodges online, and most people no longer arrive on the Internet today.

Who still uses internet services phone demand?

However, a handful of consumers continued to rely on connected internet services via phone lines. In the United States, according to the statistical office data, an estimated 163,401 families were using the phone demand alone to reach online in 2023. The number is slightly more than 0.13 % of all homes with Internet subscriptions at the country level.

AOL was the largest phone call provider for some time, but not the only one to have appeared over the years. Some smaller internet service providers continue to submit the phone request today. Regardless, the decline in the telephone order has been coming for a long time. AOL arrives to close its service with the continued disappearance of other programs for the previous Internet.

The retired video call service from Microsoft Skype earlier this year, for example, as well as Internet Explorer in 2022. In 2017, AOL stopped its immediate messenger. This chat platform has been praised as the most important direction in online communication since the establishment of the email in 1997. However, she later fought to ward off competitors.

AOL stopped until this gornl was a minute ago

AOL itself is far from the dominant Internet player, which was decades ago. Let’s not forget its logo, “I got a mail”, which received the users who examined their inbox. It was shown in the 1998 movie starring Tom Hanks and Mig Ryan with the same name.

Before America was on the Internet, AOL was established as quantum computer services in 1985. It was quickly renamed and struck the public market in 1991. Near the peak of the Dot-Com mutation, the market value of AOL reached nearly $ 164 billion in 2000. The high technology pioneer between many owners. After a catastrophic merging with Time Warner Inc. I bought Verizon AOL and sold it and Yahoo to a private stock company. The CNBC report claimed that internet users for telephone communication were “in low thousands.”

Not everything is lost for AOL. In addition to telephone internet services, the company continues to provide free email services and subscriptions that announce the protection of identity and other technical support.

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The Associated Press Business, White Granteham Philips, contributed to this report via AP NewsROOM.