To be honest, I'm surprised it lasted this long.
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2025
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Funny thing is dialup has been non viable for ~15 years if not more where I live. When you can get 100 mbit fibre for like $5 a month and it costs a whopping $12.5 dollars a month for a 1000 mbit fibre line, it makes no economic sense to offer dialup.
Where the fuck do you get fiber for $12/month?? Not in the US I assume.
No shit. I pay $60/mo for gigabit, and I thought that was a good deal...
Of course not.
I remember when I first moved to the US and saw the broadband and cell phone prices. Corruption american style.
Don’t visit Canada then. American prices look dirt cheap compared to what we have here.
Did you forget to convert back to USD and the number is just higher?
No I did everything in USD. It was a few years back so things might’ve changed but while I was still on Reddit I discussed it with some others and at least based on what they were saying, Canadian internet and phone prices were considerably higher than American. It doesn’t help that there’s a duopoly here.
I've lived in Canada too. I was surprised to find the situation with broadband/cell phone services to be even less competitive (and more pricey) than in the US.
1gigabit is 80+ here yep.
You still didn't answer where ;)
Sorry missed that. This is in Ukraine.
No American would spell fiber that way.
The are large portions on the US where there's dialup or satellite only.
I read like 10 years ago that a small but still double digit percentage of their income still came from dial-up subscribers many of whom didn’t still use the service. It was speculated at the time that many of these people simply didn’t realize they were still paying for it. I’m guessing they all finally died or credit card numbers changed enough that it wasn’t free money for them anymore.
That’s like Netflix discontinuing their dvd service only a few years ago
TIL AOL Dial up is still a thing.
Imagine how much it sucks for the person that is using dial up. Like we know they had zero alternatives.
does dial up work over 4/5G voice call? I tested over voip and it doesn't due to distortions in analog signal (maybe some optimization?).
What year is it?!
End of an era
Meanwhile, MSN Dial-Up still exists for some reason, you could say it's the COBOL of Microsoft.
+++ATH
Goodbye.
AOL was founded in 1983 and dial-up would have been the only way to access it. These dates are suspect.
Per your own link: they started as game delivery service called Control Video Corp and later became an AppleLink service called Quantum Link. They became AOL in 89 when they separated from Apple and offered internet modem pools starting in 91.
oh dear, I just skimmed for the founding date.
Man, AOL is so anachronistic, I thought for sure they had just misspelled AOC and was wondering why she had offered dial-up internet service in the first place.