It may be easy to grasp that some folks out there are still using dial-up internet, it's a little tougher to swallow the fact that 3.5 million people are using AOL's dial-up service alone.

It doesn't stop there, AOL saw about 630,000 users ditch the prehistoric service over the last year, but at the same time reported 200,000 new subscriptions. According to SplatF , AOL was losing 5 million customers a year in 2006 and 2007.The comparably slow decline is largely due to the fact that a vast majority of dial-up users have already made the switch to high speed internet during the last decade. Regardless, the thought of 3.5 million people still listening to the obnoxiously nostalgic sounds of a dial-up modem on a semi-regular basis is nothing less than breathtaking.