Staff Reports
The death knell for AOL’s dial-up internet service finally tolled this week, closing the book on one of the slowest, most frustrating chapters in American tech history. For decades, millions of Americans endured the maddening screeches and constant disconnections of dial-up, wedged between phone calls and plagued by painfully sluggish speeds. It was not progress—it was a primitive nuisance that now mercifully joins the dustbin of outdated technology discarded by a rapidly evolving digital world.
Yet, what’s striking is that even as America surged headlong into the broadband age, 163,000 households still clung to this relic as their sole internet connection in 2023. It’s a bitter reminder that our infrastructure remains uneven, a disgrace that too many Americans still lack access to the high-speed internet that powers modern life and innovation. This stagnation isn’t just a technological failure—it’s a political one, as liberal-led governments and agencies squander time and resources on grandiose green schemes instead of rebuilding the backbone that makes growth and opportunity possible.
AOL officially shuts down their original internet dialup service today. 1991-2025. Little homie had a long run. Pour one out for an OG pic.twitter.com/FDDVqM9Sl2
— Chuck U Farley, the Cooler King (@FahCubeItches) September 30, 2025
AOL, once a titan of the early internet, has long since become a shadow of its former self, a relic dragging behind the tides of innovation. Its notorious merger disaster with Time Warner and subsequent Wall Street collapse are textbook examples of corporate mismanagement fueled by reckless, centrally planned “progress.” Now owned by a private equity firm and operating under Yahoo, the company shuttered the last vestiges of dial-up quietly—no fanfare, no nostalgia tour, just a cold corporate end to an era best forgotten.
Meanwhile, the tech world keeps cycling through these so-called “innovations” that often amount to flashy distractions, distracting from the core issues. From the demise of Internet Explorer to the death of AOL Instant Messenger, the tech elite love to toss aside what no longer suits their narrative, all while pushing users into ecosystems designed to harvest data and control behavior. But the real story here is the slow, grinding failure of liberal elites to foster true American technological leadership—replaced instead by globalist visionaries who care more about control and profit than actual progress.
So, as AOL’s embarrassing dial-up era fizzles out, the real question remains: Will America rebuild a tech infrastructure worthy of free enterprise and innovation? Or will Big Government and globalist cronies keep trapping millions in digital backwaters, stifling opportunity while pretending they’re “saving the planet”? The screeching modem tones may be gone, but the noise of political incompetence and decay couldn’t be louder. Who’s ready to hit fast forward for real America?
