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, ...

Well, we knew this day was coming: dial-up internet is officially dead—at least as far as AOL is concerned. As of September 30, you can no longer revel in the nostalgia of either the AOL Dialer ...

AOL is shutting down the dial-up service that introduced homes across the US to the internet. The firm's dial-up offering connects to the internet via a phone line and currently only exists in the US ...

After decades of connecting US subscribers to its online service and the internet through telephone lines, AOL recently announced it is finally shutting down its dial-up modem service on September 30, ...

WASHINGTON — The sound that defined the early days of the internet is about to go silent forever. AOL is set to shut down its dial-up internet service, ending more than three decades of the iconic ...

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 ...

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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 ...