Dial-up modems had a distinctive sound when connecting, with the glittering, screeching song becoming a familiar melody to ...

This column is for people who remember — or who heard stories from their parents or grandparents — that staticky, buzzing ...

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 ...

Last month, a company webpage titled "Dial-up Internet to be discontinued" stated that the service would be discontinued.

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 ...

AOL debuted the service in 1989. Dial-up has largely been replaced by broadband internet. Say bye-bye to the beeps and boops of AOL's dial-up internet service Beep, bop, boop, boooopp, scrsssshh… Such ...

A LONG-STANDING internet provider is shutting down service today. The move marks a new chapter as the classic internet dial-up days officially come to an end. Founded as Quantum Computer Services ...

“Y2K,” a new horror comedy about digital devices turning murderous at the stroke of midnight in the year 2000, opens with the ...

The heyday of the '90s internet service provider is worth remembering Most of us probably moved on from dial-up decades ago, but AOL, or as most people who grew up in the ‘90s and early aughts might ...