Claim Details
View detailed information about this claim and its related sources.
Claim Information
Complete details about this extracted claim.
- Claim Text
-
The service, synonymous with the early days of the internet, will be discontinued on Sept. 30.
- Simplified Text
-
The service will be discontinued on Sept 30
- Confidence Score
- 1.000
- Claim Maker
- The author
- Context Type
- News Article
- Context Details
-
{ "date": "Sept. 30", "service": "dial-up internet", "organization": "AOL" } - UUID
- a1167ac2-7219-4bb5-afa9-6671b61d7b2a
- Vector Index
- âś— No vector
- Created
- February 15, 2026 at 6:13 PM (6 months ago)
- Last Updated
- February 15, 2026 at 6:13 PM (6 months ago)
Original Sources for this Claim (1)
All source submissions that originally contained this claim.
6
claims
1 week ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/business/aol-dial-up-internet.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20250811&instance_id=160309&nl=the-morning®i_id=122976029&segment_id=203666&user_id=b25c5730c89e0c73f75709d8f1254337
AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet service on September 30th. The service, a relic of the early internet, still had a small user base. The announcement sparked nostalgia for the dial-up era.
Similar Claims (5)
Other claims identified as semantically similar to this one.
-
Simplified: AOL will end its dial-up internet service6 months ago
-
Simplified: In 2023 163000 households in the United States were using only dial-up for internet service6 months ago
-
In 2000, America Online, as the company was known then, was the world’s largest internet company. 1.000Simplified: In 2000 America Online was the world’s largest internet company6 months ago
-
Simplified: Microsoft discontinued Skype in May and Internet Explorer in 20226 months ago
-
Simplified: Upgrade to a modern browser1 year ago