From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:16:32 -0600, Retrograde wrote:   
      
   > There are other dial-up providers beside AOL.   
      
   That would require you to keep a landline, though.   
      
   Plus the fact that telco backhauls are increasingly based on VoIP, using   
   the common Internet infrastructure, the irony of using that high-speed   
   Internet to offer voice service, which is then used to offer low-speed   
   Internet on top of that ... is ever so slightly staggering.   
      
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