The Week contest: Dead dial-up

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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THE WINNER: "You got stale"
Michael Tangredi, St. Joseph, Minnesota
SECOND PLACE: "Here lies (buffering) an old friend (buffering)..."
Rich Wolf, Westminster, Maryland
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THIRD PLACE: "Timed out, but not forgotten"
Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, California
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Rest in beeps"
George Strong, Plano, Texas
"Taken too slow, but not too soon"
Geno Recupero, Palm Desert, California
"You've got no more mail"
Ken Kellam III, Dallas, Texas
"502: Bad Gateway Forever"
Kenneth Jensen, Richland, Washington
"Let sleeping logins die"
Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"May you connect to heaven… eventually"
Larry Rifkin, Glastonbury, Connecticut
"It screeched to a halt"
Peter Gordon, Great Neck, New York
"Eternity can wait, finish my download first"
Matt Weatherly, Hillsborough, North Carolina
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