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Okay, signing up for Usenet again like it's 1999.
Going with Eternal-September just 'cuz I like the concept. :)
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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.
⒈) https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT1Y2019.B28011?q=ACSDT1Y2019.B28011