AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service after 34 years
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Every rural house gets a phone line, just like they all get roads and mail
It's not profitable, but that didn't matter because it was a utility
With Broadband, it's a "luxury" so to get it out to a clump of rural users, they all need to pay for it, or wait and hope someone else pays to get it closer.
The government gave them $400 Billion dollars (that were paid from our taxes) to do it and they pocketed the money.
The Book Of Broken Promises: $400 Billion Broadband Scandal And Free The Net
By the end of 2014, America will have been charged about $400 billion by the local phone incumbents, Verizon, AT&T and CenturyLink, for a fiber optic future that never showed up.
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AOL was founded in 1983 and dial-up would have been the only way to access it. These dates are suspect.
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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.
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The government gave them $400 Billion dollars (that were paid from our taxes) to do it and they pocketed the money.
The Book Of Broken Promises: $400 Billion Broadband Scandal And Free The Net
By the end of 2014, America will have been charged about $400 billion by the local phone incumbents, Verizon, AT&T and CenturyLink, for a fiber optic future that never showed up.
HuffPost (www.huffpost.com)
Biden just did it in 2024 again, I think that was "just" 5 billion tho
Pretty sure there was more than just those two
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Meanwhile, MSN Dial-Up still exists for some reason, you could say it's the COBOL of Microsoft.
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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.
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TIL AOL Dial up is still a thing.
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Of course not.
I remember when I first moved to the US and saw the broadband and cell phone prices. Corruption american style.
You still didn't answer where
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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.
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Don’t visit Canada then. American prices look dirt cheap compared to what we have here.
1gigabit is 80+ here yep.
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What year is it?!
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Don’t visit Canada then. American prices look dirt cheap compared to what we have 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.
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You still didn't answer where
Sorry missed that. This is in Ukraine.
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Imagine how much it sucks for the person that is using dial up. Like we know they had zero alternatives.
