As AOL bins dial-up for good, it's impossible to fully state the impact it had on gaming and the internet - but we've tried

AOL is binning disconnected its dial-up net work aft 30 years, which, frankly, is much astonishing for the information AOL inactive offered a dial-up net work than for the information it's closing it. Regardless, it's a milestone moment. AOL opened the doors of the net for millions of people; its sanction was synonymous with it. And yes, I cognize that astir of those radical were Americans, the acronym AOL lasting for America Online aft all, but AOL did run successful the UK. I vividly retrieve having an AOL promo disk successful a cardboard sleeve. I deliberation it came attached to a paper - things similar that happened backmost successful the 90s. I retrieve trying to usage it once, too, and being whisked distant to an AOL-themed portal of bite-sized net games and fledgling quality services, and beautifully disfigured 90s websites. The net backmost past was a due temper (there's a crippled called Hypnospace Outlaw that recreates it, if you don't know.)

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