On September 30, AOL switched off its internet dial-up service for good, and anyone still using its dialer software or the special Shield browser would find their internet no longer works.

Over the past 30 years, Venezuela's internet landscape has seen significant changes. From 1998 to 2002, internet users ...

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

Beep, bop, boop, boooopp, scrsssshh… 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.

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 ...