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Hubenig admits, until recently, he paid for but didn't use Verizon's service to get Wi-Fi anywhere and it's way more expensive than AOL. SHAHANI: Could be an elderly thing or could be bunk subscriptions to AOL were just an early sign, foreshadowing a key feature in the digital era. HUBENIG: They're probably senior citizens that just don't know better is what I would imagine. SHAHANI: Pedestrian Adam Hubenig maybe took the words right of your mouth.

SHAHANI: Though one clarification, McCauley says her grandparents are the ones paying for AOL. SHAHANI: That's very 'Sleepless In Seattle.'

MCCAULEY: And it was because I had a romance that that was the only way we would contact each other was through AIM (laughter). But the last time McCauley dialed up was six years ago for the instant messaging service, AIM. SHAHANI: Some AOL subscribers even now don't have access to broadband and have to dial-up. MCCAULEY: Because it was one of the only things that existed at the time. SHAHANI: Thirty-year-old Miranda McCauley got her account when she was 12.

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I can't - I don't even know how to get rid of it. MIRANDA MCCAULEY: Yeah, it's It's my first email ever. NPR's Aarti Shahani went looking for AOL customers in San Francisco.ДЄARTI SHAHANI, BYLINE: Walk down Mission Street, do a random sampling of pedestrians, and in 16 minutes flat, find a real-life AOL subscriber. The reality is that many people still have AOL accounts or even AOL dial-up Internet. Yet so quickly does the Internet world move that AOL also seems like a brand out of some past generation, like Burma-Shave. AOL was an Internet giant recently enough that most adults can still recall it. It's not worth much compared to a decade or two ago. When Verizon bought the Internet company AOL, people mainly commented on the price.