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

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 ...

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 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 ...

After decades of connecting Americans to its online service and the Internet through telephone lines, AOL recently announced it is finally shutting down its dial-up modem service on September 30, 2025 ...

We can’t configure dial-up networking on a laptop with Windows XP Service Pack 2 that already has working Ethernet and wireless network adapters. Using dial-up, the system connects successfully and we ...

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 ...