{"id":737698,"date":"2013-02-09T00:13:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T05:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=322494"},"modified":"2013-02-09T00:13:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T05:13:02","slug":"amazing-but-true-aols-dial-up-business-still-makes-over-150-million-in-quarterly-operating-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/737698","title":{"rendered":"Amazing but true: AOL\u2019s dial up business still makes over $150 million in quarterly operating income"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/09\/aol-dial-up-business-income-322494\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"489\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/aolcd-e1343397515818.jpg?w=650&#038;h=489&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C489\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"AOL Dial Up Business\" title=\"AOL Disc\" \/><\/a><\/center>We were surprised last summer when we learned that there were still <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/07\/27\/aol-dial-up-3-million-subscribers\/\">3 million lost souls who were trapped in AOL dial-up hell<\/a>, since we figured that dial-up Internet service had gone the way of POGs and Beanie Babies as <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2008\/06\/23\/aol-releases-new-windows-mobile-aim-client-hell-freezes-over\/\">'90s trends that had been mercifully relegated to the dustbin of history<\/a>. But as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/aol-subscription-business-profit-2013-2\"><em>Business Insider's<\/em> Henry Blodget points out<\/a>, AOL's (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=aol\">AOL<\/a>) dial-up subscription service is still the company's major money maker and produced an operating income before depreciation and amortization of\u00a0$158.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2012. Blodget notes that even though AOL's dial-up business is still shrinking, it's still producing \"about $500 million a year... that AOL can use and is using to invest in other cool businesses (content and an ad network).\" So take comfort, AOL dial-up subscribers: Your willingness to wait 45 minutes to watch a three-minute YouTube video is powering AOL's other businesses to new and exciting heights.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/ddpzmUi5x2Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were surprised last summer when we learned that there were still 3 million lost souls who were trapped in AOL dial-up hell, since we figured that dial-up Internet service had gone the way of POGs and Beanie Babies as &#8217;90s trends that had been mercifully relegated to the dustbin of history. But as Business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2340,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-35Um","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}