The Family Handyman on MSN

You’ve Got No Mail: AOL Is Pulling the Plug on Dial-Up

After more than three decades, AOL is officially retiring its dial-up internet service. The change will take effect Sept. 30, ...

AOL hangs up the dial-up internet service (and sound) that defined an era

Last month, a company webpage titled "Dial-up Internet to be discontinued" stated that the service would be discontinued.
How-To Geek on MSN

Why Did AOL Wait Until Now to End Dial-up?

On September 30, AOL switched off its internet dial-up service for good, and anyone still using its dialer software or the ...
Yahoo

AOL’s dial-up internet shuts down this September

Before Wi-Fi blanketed our lives and smartphones kept us online 24/7, the patient, scratchy sound of AOL’s dial-up connection served as the gateway to the internet for its first explorers. Next month, ...
WTVY

AOL to stop offering dial-up after more than 30 years

(CNN) – AOL is ditching dial-up. The internet service was once the biggest name in internet service connectivity and is a vestige of the early days of the World Wide Web. Many who remember the ...

Streaming YouTube over dial-up: how one creator hit 668 kbps with 12 modems

The YouTube channel The Serial Port has pulled off something few imagined possible in the broadband era: streaming YouTube over a dial-up connection. In their latest ...