Before ADSL was introduced around 2000, internet connections were overwhelmingly ``dial-up connections,'' where you dialed your home modem to an access point provided by your provider and connected ...

Millions of people first explored the Internet thanks to AOL. The US provider still offers dial-up via modem at – but this will come to an end in the fall. AOL has announced that it will no longer ...

Older generations remember the sound of dial-up internet from the 90s and early 2000s, but what was once the soundtrack to an era is coming to an end. On Sept. 30, AOL would discontinue its dial-up ...

Blogger Lily Siwik uses the chat tool Discord and an audio decoding program to create a dial-up connection. PCs in the 2020s basically do not have modems for dial-up connections. So Siwik sought out a ...

Such was the sound of AOL's dial-up service, a marker of trying to connect to the internet in the 1990s. Now the company has announced it's getting rid of dial-up. "AOL routinely evaluates its ...

Also BBSes, which were also huge time sinks. I ended up bringing in a second phone line to my parents' house, and then a third line when I wanted to run a BBS. But the house was only wired for two, so ...

Remember dial-up internet? One of its biggest providers says it's time to retire the service – one of the first ways people could get online – after more than three decades. American online service ...

AOL is set to discontinue its dial-up internet service by the end of September, marking the end of an era for the landline-based connection that once introduced millions to the internet. At its peak ...