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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Any alternatives to the Starlink?
Kuiper and Guowang are currently launching satellites. It will probably be a few years before they are operational though.
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I still have one, still in the cellophane. I use it as a coaster.
You got more use out of it than most
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Look, just because your one of the people who understands it, doesn’t mean their one of the ones who do.
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Look, just because your one of the people who understands it, doesn’t mean their one of the ones who do.
Eye twitch at intentionally wrong use of they're/their/there
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Eye twitch at intentionally wrong use of they're/their/there
Your instead of you're.
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FFS will people ever use "it's" and "its" correctly ?
It's not are fault, it's the school's!
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If you live in a rural area, it seems plausible
Yea I guess so. Man that must be difficult.
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AOL Shield Browser is some absolute Wack Crap.
Remember how AOL bought Netscape and open-sourced it, leading to the Mozilla project?
AOL Shield Browser is based on Chromium.
...I get it, Chromium is easier to use for developing custom browsers than Gecko. But, still... why?
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AOL Shield Browser is some absolute Wack Crap.
Remember how AOL bought Netscape and open-sourced it, leading to the Mozilla project?
AOL Shield Browser is based on Chromium.
...I get it, Chromium is easier to use for developing custom browsers than Gecko. But, still... why?
I actually had no idea that Firefox only exists because of AOL (The Mozilla Browser evolved into Firefox for those not in the know). Thanks for sharing that interesting bit of history.
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Your instead of you're.
Also that
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If you live in a rural area, it seems plausible
Even simple pages are now at least 1-2MB big. News pages without an ad blocker and Autoplay videos can easily try to download 10 or more MB per page load.
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I actually had no idea that Firefox only exists because of AOL (The Mozilla Browser evolved into Firefox for those not in the know). Thanks for sharing that interesting bit of history.
To be pedantic there really wasn't a standalone browser, it was the Netscape (then Mozilla) suite which was browser email WYSIWYG HTML editor and an irc client. Firefox, then called Firebird, was them fully decoupling it from the suite.
Also that's why the email client is called Thunderbird, it was meant to be a separate but complimentary program to Firebird.
The pedantic part is that it wasn't an evolution. The suite never died, it's still around. They have a shared Netscape/Mozilla Suite ancestor. It's called SeaMonkey.
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Yea I guess so. Man that must be difficult.
Can confirm. I did it when the fiber outfit wanted ten grand to home run it 1000 feet to the house and then also wanted to retain ownership of that run. I told them to get fucked and dusted off a hardware modem.
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Fitting that it's ending in (eternal) September.
Deep cut appreciated and approved of.
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The other satellite players (Hughesnet, Viasat), the fixed 5G boxes (although places sufficiently rural to seriously consider dialup may not have 5G), probably some smaller boutique dialup ISPs.
Currently, no one compares to Starlink, unfortunately. It’s really that much better. Source: FiL has been on the beta since the first constellation went up.
