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Speaker 1: So did you see the AOL as ending their dial

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Speaker 1: up service. It's still ending it, it still exists. Yeah

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Speaker 1: wait wait wait wait wait service is going to end

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Speaker 1: September thirty.

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Speaker 2: Eh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're telling me in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Are you talking about this noise? Yeah? Yeah, that's still.

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Speaker 2: A thing in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for some people, they announced they're going to discontinue

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Speaker 3: their dial up Internet. I mean, I can't even I

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Speaker 3: don't even have a landline phone anymore.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I don't even cav Do you even

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Speaker 2: know what AOL is? Do you even? I mean your Yeah, we.

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Speaker 1: Had dial up until I was like ten, Oh you did.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so even twenty years ago you had dial up Internet.

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Speaker 1: Were you allowed to be on the Internet?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I used.

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Speaker 2: I tried to use YouTube, but when my grandma would call,

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Speaker 2: it always kicked me off the Internet. Okay, So I'm

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Speaker 2: sure obviously most people hearing our voice would know what

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Speaker 2: AOL was. But it was this the kind of first

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Speaker 2: mainstream version of the Internet, in which you had to

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Speaker 2: have a phone line and you would plug your computer

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Speaker 2: into this phone line and this program would then it

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Speaker 2: sounded like you were dialing a phone number and it

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Speaker 2: would connect you to the internet. Casey, don't ask me

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Speaker 2: how I know this. You know how long it took

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Speaker 2: to download a photo.

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Speaker 3: A while, yeah, originally called America Online.

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Speaker 2: If you had a two hour window between when school

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Speaker 2: was over when your parents got home from work, you

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Speaker 2: can get through about three photos.

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Speaker 3: I remember when it first came out and my boss

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Speaker 3: at a radio station had it, but only in his office,

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Speaker 3: so everybody would go back there and what is this

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Speaker 3: internet thing?

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Speaker 2: And then there was some upgrade of AOL that was

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Speaker 2: a big deal, went from certain K to another K

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Speaker 2: and that was a.

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Speaker 3: Huge and the free trial scene so that they would

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Speaker 3: send out that's right, because.

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Speaker 2: It was a subscription based thing. It was through your

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Speaker 2: phone company. I think, right, was that if I remember

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Speaker 2: that correctly, because the big thing in your house was

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Speaker 2: you had to then get a second phone line, otherwise

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Speaker 2: you couldn't be on the phone or.

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Speaker 1: You'd be kicked off. When Kevin's grandma calls, that's right,

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Speaker 1: that's right.

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Speaker 2: And the computer at the at the same time, and

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Speaker 2: I think Kevin is correct. The phone olthough I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I thought if you called and you were on the Internet.

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Speaker 2: It gave a busy signal. I thought that was the deal.

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Speaker 2: You would get a busy signal because you were literally on.

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Speaker 1: The phone the phone. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So in twenty one, Verizon sold AOL and Yahoo to

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Speaker 3: Apollo Global Management for five billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: What year twenty one twenty one?

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Speaker 2: Yahoo's still around?

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Speaker 3: Yes, Yahoo is still around, No kidding, al AOL is

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Speaker 3: now part of Yahoo.

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Speaker 2: But what does AOL do?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: How many what do people.

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Speaker 1: Still have the AOL email? Well?

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Speaker 2: Okay, but how are they making money on that?

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Speaker 1: I don't believe they are.

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Speaker 2: Well, but they paid five billion for it, and there

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Speaker 2: was some way to I mean, this is dumber to

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Speaker 2: people that bought my space there. I mean, there must

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Speaker 2: be some way if you paid five billion for something.

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Speaker 2: Because the mega merger.

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Speaker 1: Is AOL a news site.

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Speaker 2: Now, one of the mega mergers of my youth was

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Speaker 2: the AOL Time Warner merger. That was the beginning of

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Speaker 2: the end of basically both of those companies. Is when

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Speaker 2: AOL Time Warner, the cable company, and AOL merged together.

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Speaker 2: And that I mean people correctly, I'm wrong, You're a

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Speaker 2: little more season than I People lost massive amounts of

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Speaker 2: money Ted Turner like lost a fortune in the AOL

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Speaker 2: Time Warner merger because Time Warner he had, you know,

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Speaker 2: basic control over Time Warner. And then during that merger

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Speaker 2: he was put in a corner and told goodbye Grandpa

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Speaker 2: and then lost ended up losing a fortune on that boy.

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Speaker 2: I can't believe it's still around.

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Speaker 3: Well, there is an AOL dot com and they say

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Speaker 3: they're news, politics, sports mail in the latest headlines, So

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Speaker 3: that's how they're making their money.

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Speaker 1: You can still get on AOL mail.

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Speaker 2: Who's going there for their news? Though? Who's like, you

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Speaker 2: know what, there's some breaking must have information. I'll go

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Speaker 2: to AOL.

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Speaker 1: AOL.

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Speaker 2: Who's working for AOL? Do they have employees? Do they

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Speaker 2: have people that they sign checks over to do work

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Speaker 2: on their behalf? I didn't even know it was still around.

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Speaker 3: According to the picture, there's a guy working right there.

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Speaker 1: According to the picture on the internet.

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Speaker 3: Yeah,