AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day
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it one an rp chatroom on aol were i had my first taste of d&d and larp back in the day
The Legacy of the Red Dragon Inn
In the early- to mid-nineties I spent a fair amount of time on AOL’s Free-Form Gaming Forum. In particular in a group of chat rooms known as...
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Wow. I didn't know that dial up was still a thing in the US
Capitalism milked that shit D R Y.
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TIL AOL still exists.
Me too!
(obscure reference time)
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i miss the red dragon inn
It's a really fun drinking boardgame game now.
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back in the early 00s I used to do AOL tech support. Even then a lot of people were on cable or DSL. Vast majority of calls we got were from people out in the boonies or the elderly so it doesn't surprise me that there are still a good chunk of people on dialup.
Actually by that point most of our calls weren't even for Dial Up. the thing with AOL support back then was if the user also had other computer issues unrelated to AOL that they brought up while on the line with us we HAD to address them and try to do support for it. Callers would discover this fact and use AOL tech support as a defacto go to tech support for ALL computer issues. They'd start off with some random easy to fix (they knew how to fix) dialup issue and then would say "oh wow you fixed it, I wish you could also help me with this problem I've been having for awhile with..." and yup, we'd roll our eyes and say "oh, what what's wrong?" A good chunk of my calls, believe it or not, would be for printer issues.
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it one an rp chatroom on aol were i had my first taste of d&d and larp back in the day
The Legacy of the Red Dragon Inn
In the early- to mid-nineties I spent a fair amount of time on AOL’s Free-Form Gaming Forum. In particular in a group of chat rooms known as...
(anarkeith.blogspot.com)
Nice, thanks for the explanation!
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back in the early 00s I used to do AOL tech support. Even then a lot of people were on cable or DSL. Vast majority of calls we got were from people out in the boonies or the elderly so it doesn't surprise me that there are still a good chunk of people on dialup.
Actually by that point most of our calls weren't even for Dial Up. the thing with AOL support back then was if the user also had other computer issues unrelated to AOL that they brought up while on the line with us we HAD to address them and try to do support for it. Callers would discover this fact and use AOL tech support as a defacto go to tech support for ALL computer issues. They'd start off with some random easy to fix (they knew how to fix) dialup issue and then would say "oh wow you fixed it, I wish you could also help me with this problem I've been having for awhile with..." and yup, we'd roll our eyes and say "oh, what what's wrong?" A good chunk of my calls, believe it or not, would be for printer issues.
Hell, I'm sure there are still some places that only have dialup.
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The one that kills me is the positive use of "anymore," which I've come to learn is colloquial to Northern Ireland and the midwest US, but good lord it just doesn't sound right when people say stuff like "everybody's cool anymore" instead of "everybody's cool now." For some reason I felt like it was becoming more common but now I'm thinking it might just be my exposure to midwest.social.
Huh; never heard that use, before. Sounds incredibly wrong to be, as well.
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back in the early 00s I used to do AOL tech support. Even then a lot of people were on cable or DSL. Vast majority of calls we got were from people out in the boonies or the elderly so it doesn't surprise me that there are still a good chunk of people on dialup.
Actually by that point most of our calls weren't even for Dial Up. the thing with AOL support back then was if the user also had other computer issues unrelated to AOL that they brought up while on the line with us we HAD to address them and try to do support for it. Callers would discover this fact and use AOL tech support as a defacto go to tech support for ALL computer issues. They'd start off with some random easy to fix (they knew how to fix) dialup issue and then would say "oh wow you fixed it, I wish you could also help me with this problem I've been having for awhile with..." and yup, we'd roll our eyes and say "oh, what what's wrong?" A good chunk of my calls, believe it or not, would be for printer issues.
I still use my old aim account as my spam email email address. Any business asks for my email, they get that one. There's like 5,000 unread emails in there. It keeps my actual email uncluttered and not full of spam. It'll be a sad day when they close down those servers, then I'll have to to dust off the ole Hotmail account lol
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Oh wow, dial-up in Germany died 20+ years ago. I'm surprised that's still a thing. Well, was. But until now is really staggering. I wonder what you could even still do over such a connection, considering that even messenger services and email now use 3-5MB just completing the server handshake.
I don't think you appreciate how remote many people are in the US. There's now way they would ever run cable or ISDN out to them. A run of an ISDN line can only be really short.
