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as late as 2015, 2.1 million people were somehow still using its dial-up service That number is how many AOL Dial Up customers there were in 2015. It's from th
by onion2k 5y ago
as late as 2015, 2.1 million people were somehow still using its dial-up service
That number is how many AOL Dial Up customers there were in 2015. It's from this article - https://www.cnet.com/news/more-than-2-million-people-still-pay-for-aol-dialup/ https://www.cnet.com/news/more-than-2-million-people-still-p...
Paying for the service is not the same as using the service. There are many reasons to pay for a redundant dial-up connection in case of an outage with your main internet provider. There are probably lots of people who had a dial-up account but forgot to close it. Some people probably did still use it, but for things they don't need broadband for (email, IRC, etc).
You can't use the existence of a handful of dial-up connections to claim we should be building web software for people on dial-up. That just shows you haven't thought about things enough.