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   Retrograde to Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
   Re: Bye-Bye Dialup USA   
   13 Aug 25 20:16:32   
   
   From: fungus@amongus.com.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 10 Aug 2025 08:11:54 -0000 (UTC)   
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote:   
      
   > US-based ISP America On-Line (AOL) will finally turn off its dialup   
   > Internet service at the end of September   
      
   There are other dial-up providers beside AOL.  That kind of connection   
   is only good for email however and maybe Usenet.  Impossible to surf   
   the modern web.  I remember when webpages strove to keep an individual   
   page size below 30KB.  Long ago.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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