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   Cryptoengineer to Gary McGath   
   Re: AOL ends dial-up   
   16 Aug 25 20:55:51   
   
   From: petertrei@gmail.com   
      
   On 8/13/2025 11:02 AM, Gary McGath wrote:   
   > On 8/13/25 1:30 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >> Jay Morris   wrote:   
   >>> AOL has announced that they will turn off their last dial-up modems at   
   >>> the end of September. They are down to a few thousand dial-up users out   
   >>> of 2 million plus.   
   >>   
   >> Far too late for it to do the world any good.   
   >>   
   >> They came in, ruined the internet, and then left.  Just like Belgium   
   >> in the Congo.   
   >   
   > Dial-up modems ruined the Internet?   
   >   
      
   There's a reason behind the enternalseptember newserver's name.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September   
      
   pt   
      
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