Variety

AOL to Be Acquired by Italy’s Bending Spoons

AOL currently has about 8 million daily active users and 30 million monthly active users for its news, content and games web portal and email services, according to Bending Spoons. An early leader in ...
Forbes

AOL Has A New Italian Owner: Unicorn Startup Bending Spoons

Milan's Bending Spoons will buy AOL's email platform, its homepage, once one of the valuable pieces of internet from Apollo while raising $2.8 billion in debt. AOL was the first destination on the ...
Los Angeles Times

AOL ends dial-up service, closing the book on ’90s internet era

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. It’s official: AOL’s dial-up internet has taken its last bow. AOL previously confirmed it would be pulling the ...
Boston Herald

AOL’s dial up internet takes its last bow, marking the end of an era

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s official: AOL’s dial-up internet has taken its last bow. AOL previously confirmed it would be pulling the plug on Tuesday (Sept. 30) — writing in a brief update on its support ...
New York Post

AOL pulls the plug on dial-up internet after decades of service

It’s official: AOL’s dial-up internet has taken its last bow. AOL previously confirmed it would be pulling the plug on Tuesday (Sept. 30) — writing in a brief update on its support site last month ...
PBS

AOL ends dial-up internet service, marking the end of an era

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s official: AOL’s dial-up internet has taken its last bow. AOL previously confirmed it would be pulling the plug on Tuesday (Sept. 30) — writing in a brief update on its support ...
Fast Company

AOL discontinues its dial-up internet service that shaped a generation

It’s official: AOL’s dial-up internet has taken its last bow. AOL previously confirmed it would be pulling the plug on Tuesday (September 30)—writing in a brief update on its support site last month ...
AOL

AOL Finally Ends A Painfully Slow Chapter Of Internet History

AOL officially pulled the plug on its dial-up internet service Tuesday, ending the screeching modem tones that once defined getting online in America. The company quietly announced the move last month ...
KGW8

End of an era: AOL discontinues dial-up internet service after more than 30 years

WASHINGTON — The sound that defined the early days of the internet is going silent forever. AOL is shutting down its dial-up internet service on Tuesday, ending more than three decades of the iconic ...
USA Today

AOL hangs up the dial-up internet service (and sound) that defined an era

Older generations remember the sound of dial-up internet from the 90s and early 2000s, but what was once the soundtrack to an era is coming to an end. On Sept. 30, AOL would discontinue its dial-up ...