After decades of connecting US subscribers 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, ...

A symphony of screeching come to an end! Parent Yahoo! confirms! From the department of "Want to feel old?" comes news that AOL is finally pulling the plug on dial-up Internet access.… While there are ...

AOL has recently announced that it will discontinue dial-up internet services, including its associated software, before the end of the year. This announcement left many shocked that dial-up internet ...

AOL, formerly known as America Online, announced that it is shutting down its dial-up internet service. The move stirred a wave of shock and dilemma across the internet, with many wondering how ...

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The shrill squeal and static burst of a dial-up modem once filled millions of homes. That unique sound was the gateway to a new world. It promised email, chat rooms, and websites. America Online, or ...

When we think about using the internet in the 1990s, there’s one specific sound that comes to mind. You can’t really describe it in writing but you can surely recreate it with your voice. In fact, I ...

A beacon of the early internet is about to be silenced. AOL’s dial-up internet service is shutting down Tuesday, ending one of the web’s first mainstream access points. Once a dominant technology ...

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 ...

Dial-up Internet access by phone modem, once condemned to death in the slow lane as cable modems and DSL lines zipped to domination, is getting a reprieve thanks to a slick new technology called Web ...

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 ...