AOL (America Online) has announced that it will discontinue its dial-up Internet service next month after 34 years.

The company confirmed the plans on its website, as noted in a post on Bluesky by journalist Ernie Smith.

The service will be discontinued on September 30.

"AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet. This service will no longer be available in AOL plans. As a result, on September 30, 2025, this service and the associated software, the AOL Dialer software and AOL Shield browser, which are optimized for older operating systems and dial-up Internet connections, will be discontinued," said AOL on its website.

Dial-up Internet is an older technology that connected users to the Internet via the public switched telephone network (PSTN). Although popular in the 90s and early 2000s, the service has been widely replaced by broadband.

AOL first launched its dial-up Internet service in 1991, as home computers became more popular in the US.

During the most recent US census back in 2019, figures showed that an estimated 265,000 people in the US were using only dial-up Internet.

AOL previously shut down its instant messenger service back in 2017, citing competition from Google Chat, Facebook Messenger, and Skype.

Verizon acquired AOL in 2015 for $4.4 billion, before selling AOL along with Yahoo to private equity firm Apollo Global Management.

BT previously discontinued its dial-up Internet service in 2013.