AOL is ending its dial-up internet service after more than 30 years, marking the end of an early online era. Learn about its ...

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

Those chaotic screeches of dial-up weren’t random — they were data, tones encoding handshakes, carrier signals, and sync ...

It’s the end of an era. AOL announced this week that it has discontinued its dial-up internet service. For younger Gen-Xers and elder millennials, in particular, the beep-boops, whirrs, and crackly ...

The classic dial-up handshake sounds melodic, scratchy, and harsh, and is inexorably associated with connection. It’s also now silent. AOL’s decision this week to finally end dial-up service is not ...

For millions, the first time they went online sounded like this: a click, a dial tone, a burst of static, a high-pitched screech, and then — if the internet gods smiled — silence, followed by a cheery ...

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 ...

The company said the service, synonymous with the early days of the internet, will be discontinued on Sept. 30. By Yan Zhuang AOL announced that its dial-up internet service will be discontinued next ...

Broadband and wireless options ultimately emerged and dominated over the more old-school dial-up service for most internet users.