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, ...

It's the end of an era for AOL, which will end its dial-up internet service next month after over 35 years. "AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up ...

AOL is set to shut down the dial-up internet service that once was the symbol of internet connectivity after over 40 years. A company webpage titled "Dial-up Internet to be discontinued" states that ...

AOL is killing its dial-up internet. First introduced commercially in 1989 and made largely obsolescent in the 2000s by the spread of broadband, the company perhaps most associated with the technology ...

Dear friends, it is time to pour one out for the iconic, screeching sound of a modem connecting to the internet. AOL, a name synonymous with the early days of the world wide web, has announced it will ...

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 ...

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 ...

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AOL announced it plans to shutter its dial-up Internet services and products on Sept. 30. File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI Aug. 11 (UPI) --AOL announced it plans to end dial-up Internet service after ...