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NPR<\/a>: America Online to discontinue dial-up internet service which is still miraculously still available in the year 2025<\/span><\/p>\n Frankly, I\u2019m astonished that AOL is even still in existence, much less their very specific dial-up internet service.\u00a0 After Instant Messenger had the plug pulled<\/a> from it back in like 2017, I wouldn\u2019t have imagined that AOL had any product or asset at all remotely capable of keeping them afloat as a business, but here we are in the year 2025 where they\u2019re not only still alive, but about to pull the plug on the very thing that put them on the map in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n I mean, who among my general age range, didn\u2019t ever have AOL?\u00a0 It\u2019s basically a rite of passage for elder xennials<\/em> like myself, and probably most everyone could probably remember their very first @aol.com screen name slash email address.\u00a0 And everyone was innately aware of the free trial CDs that were just about everywhere, and looking back at it, it worked in the sense that they saturated the playing field so heavily that for a while, internet access = America Online, much like soda became synonymous with Coca-Cola.<\/span><\/p>\n But before I can go down the rabbit hole of nostalgia and wax poetic all day about stories involving AOL, I\u2019m just going to get back to the point of this whole post, and finally wrap up the title of this post because I don\u2019t write as often as I want to lately and I can\u2019t get myself sucked into my own vortexes of words instead of getting to the point of the things that I actually do want to write about.<\/span><\/p>\n But anyway, wouldn\u2019t it be funny if, with the elimination of AOL dial-up service, it completely turns the tide of the political battlefield in America?\u00a0 With the obvious implication that GOP supporters are mostly a bunch of antiquated olds who only have their internet access via AOL dial-up, and when the service is taken away from them, they lose their umbilical cord to the modern world, and either shrivel up and die sooner from boredom, or without the bullshit they currently imbibe on, on the regular, their minds actually clear up and break free from the brainwashing they\u2019ve all been subject to over the span of the last few decades.<\/span><\/p>\n Like I kind of write this partially in jest, but at the same time, there\u2019s a shred of hope of believing that this might actually come into play in the future.\u00a0 The numbers (well maybe not necessarily) don\u2019t lie, GOP voters are on average 726 years old, and short of having shitty brainwashed tech-savvier children setting up their internet, I have to make the assumption that there\u2019s a tremendous overlap between Republican voters and AOL dial-up users.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And since neglecting the elderly knows no political affiliation, there\u2019s no guarantee that when AOL dial-up goes offline in September, there\u2019s actually going to be people readily available to swap these geriatrics onto any form of higher-speed internet, and thus begins the prophetic disconnection with the modern world for these demographics, and it lowers their chances to be auto-right voters come the next election.<\/span><\/p>\n Yes, there are a ton of holes in this logic, but all I\u2019m saying is that it would be real humorous to me that come 2028, the next election is seemingly way less dramatic and there\u2019s a surreptitiously noticeable reduction in Republican voters, from a very specific demographic, and I for one will immediately point to this specific news story about how AOL killed their dial-up, and inadvertently changed the fate of the entire country in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n \/goodbye.wav<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NPR: America Online to discontinue dial-up internet service which is still miraculously still available in the year 2025 Frankly, I\u2019m astonished that AOL is even still in existence, much less their very specific dial-up internet service.\u00a0 After Instant Messenger had the plug pulled from it back in like 2017, I wouldn\u2019t have imagined that AOL … Continue reading Wouldn\u2019t it be funny 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