After decades of connecting Americans to its online service and the Internet through telephone lines, AOL recently announced it is finally shutting down its dial-up modem service on September 30, 2025. The announcement marks the end of a technology that served as the primary gateway to the World Wide Web for millions of users throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.
If Netherlands was a US state it would be ranked 42/50 in area. We have zero-population zones larger than your whole country. Our government refused to spend taxpayer money properly on telecom infrastructure since the 1990s so some of us are stuck here with Pony Express internet, it’s awful.
Oh and now our corrupt gov wants to eliminate “wasteful” fiber in exchange for Musk becoming a trillionaire with Starlink. Lovely.
Add in the fact when Comcast got subsidies to improve infrastructure they fucked off with the money and never got punished for it.
That’s horrible, I got fiber at home 1GB up and down. How can you expect a country to be at the top of things when you don’t invest.
By sabotaging all the other countries that are dependent on our corporations. The problem is that most of our corporations don’t even make anything anymore, so everyone is starting to get wise