AOL: Signing Off (from Dial-up)

As of Sept 30, 2025, AOL will discontinue its dial-up service. I think anyone reading those words in 2025 will have likely assumed that AOL had shut down the dial-up service long ago but, nope! According to the article, there's still at least 163,000+ users accessing the Internet via this method and I imagine there are more in rural areas that use other services.

Obviously it's nostalgia but that modem handshake sound still tickles a positive part of my brain. RIP AOL Dial-up!