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  1. Okay, signing up for Usenet again like it's 1999.

    Going with Eternal-September just 'cuz I like the concept. :)

    #eternalSeptember #usenet

  2. Yesterday #AOL finally shut down #dialup. No more bee-bzz-brr-chrrr.

    In 2019, 265,000 people in the US were still using a dial-up connection¹ (at 56 kbps!). Before the shutdown, this number was in the low 1000s².

    What were they doing? An average website probably takes 10 minutes to load with a modem. Still eternal-septembering the #usenet? ;)

    I'd be interested in numbers from other parts of the world.

    #eternalseptember #modem #isp

    ⒈) data.census.gov/table/ACSDT1Y2

    ⒉) cnbc.com/2021/05/03/aol-1point