Dial-up modems used to be the default way of accessing the Internet, but times have moved on. They’re now largely esoteric relics from a time gone by. With regular old phone lines rather hard to come ...

AOL is officially ending its dial-up service after 34 years. How much were users paying for the internet via phone line service with the iconic beep-boop-screeching sound? According to an announcement ...

The end of an era. AOL has officially hung up the phone on its decades-spanning dial-up internet service. The corporation previously announced that these specific services would be discontinued on ...

Who doesn’t like dial-up internet? Even if those who survived the dial-up years are happy to be on broadband, and those who are still on dial-up wish that they weren’t, there’s definitely a nostalgic ...

PHOENIX - In what can be described as the end of an era, the company formerly known as "America Online" is ending its dial-up internet service. According to the Associated Press, AOL rose to ...

AOL-or American Online, as it was once called-is officially ending its dial-up internet service after 36 years. This change comes after the 2023 United States Census Bureau report that claimed ...

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 ...