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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.