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

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

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, ...

AOL officially pulled the plug on its dial-up internet service Tuesday, ending the screeching modem tones that once defined getting online in America. The company quietly announced the move last month ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...