The company will no longer offer its dial-up internet service after September 30. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the sound—the chaotic screeching, static bursts, and electronic beeps that meant you ...

Such was the sound of AOL's dial-up service, a marker of trying to connect to the internet in the 1990s. Now the company has announced it's getting rid of dial-up. "AOL routinely evaluates its ...

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 ...

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, ...

If the sound of a modem connecting was your soundtrack to the ’90s, brace yourself because AOL dial-up is officially ending. In an announcement via its website, AOL said after over 30 years, it plans ...

TL;DR: AOL, a pioneer of 1990s dial-up internet and instant messaging, will discontinue its dial-up service on September 30, 2025, ending 34 years of legacy connectivity. Despite broadband advances, ...

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 ...

I don’t think I’ll ever forget the sound—the chaotic screeching, static bursts, and electronic beeps that meant you were about to step out onto the World Wide Web. That unmistakable dial-up handshake ...

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 Dial-up has largely been replaced by broadband internet.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 ...

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