{"id":641868,"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.media\/index\/641868","title":{"rendered":"Amazing but true: AOL\u2019s dial up business still makes over $150 million in quarterly operating income"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/09\/aol-dial-up-business-income-322494\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"489\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/aolcd-e1343397515818.jpg?w=650&amp;h=489&amp;crop=1\" 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\/\">&#8217;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&#8217;s<\/em> Henry Blodget points out<\/a>, AOL&#8217;s (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=aol\">AOL<\/a>) dial-up subscription service is still the company&#8217;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&#8217;s dial-up business is still shrinking, it&#8217;s still producing &#8220;about $500 million a year&#8230; that AOL can use and is using to invest in other cool businesses (content and an ad network).&#8221; So take comfort, AOL dial-up subscribers: Your willingness to wait 45 minutes to watch a three-minute YouTube video is powering AOL&#8217;s other businesses to new and exciting heights.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/ddpzmUi5x2Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","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":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}