Older generations remember the sound of dial-up internet from the 90s and early 2000s, but what was once the soundtrack to an era is coming to an end. On Sept. 30, AOL would discontinue its dial-up ...

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 ...

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, ...

Blogger Lily Siwik uses the chat tool Discord and an audio decoding program to create a dial-up connection. PCs in the 2020s basically do not have modems for dial-up connections. So Siwik sought out a ...

Do you remember dial-up internet access? If you are over a certain age – and I am – it is likely that your first experience of going online was plugged in to the phone jack in the wall, listening to ...

Also BBSes, which were also huge time sinks. I ended up bringing in a second phone line to my parents' house, and then a third line when I wanted to run a BBS. But the house was only wired for two, so ...