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

T he latest episode published by tech channel The Serial Port began with an interesting question: Is it possible to stream YouTube via dial-up internet? As the headline suggests, ...

Well, we knew this day was coming: dial-up internet is officially dead—at least as far as AOL is concerned. As of September ...

The company, once considered the pioneer of internet connectivity, issued a statement last month on its webpage announcing ...

AOL announced this week that it has discontinued its dial-up internet service that younger Gen-Xers and elder millennials once relied on ...

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 ...

The ‘you’ve got mail’ era already feels like a lifetime ago, but in the week dial-up connections are finally turned off by AOL, Liam Murphy-Robledo talks to the pioneers of commercial dial-up internet ...

Internet service providers, or ISPs, are companies or organizations that provide you with access to the internet. ISPs can ...

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, ...

AOL officially pulled the plug on its dial-up internet service Tuesday, ending the screeching modem tones that once defined ...

In the days of yore, computers would scream strange sounds as they spoke with each other over phone lines. Of course, this is ...

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 ...