This week's question: AOL has announced that it will soon discontinue its dial-up service, which — with beeps, boops, whirrs and screeches — first connected the masses to the internet in the 1990s. In seven or fewer words, come up with an epitaph for this now-archaic mode of accessing the World Wide Web.
Click here to see the results of last week's contest: Adult pacifier
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