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 ...

These mechanical symphonies of rotary phones, dial-up modems, and typewriter keys aren't just nostalgic noise—they're the DNA ...

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 shrill squeal and static burst of a dial-up modem once filled millions of homes. That unique sound was the gateway to a new world. It promised email, chat rooms, and websites. America Online, or ...

AOL says it will phase out its dial-up service at the end of September this year, ending the iconic dial-up sound, a nostalgic relic from the '90s and early '00s. The company, also known by its ...

The end of an era. AOL has officially hung up the phone on its decades-spanning dial-up internet service. The corporation previously announced that these specific services would be discontinued on ...

AOL is officially ending its dial-up service after 34 years. How much were users paying for the internet via phone line service with the iconic beep-boop-screeching sound? According to an announcement ...

In the days of yore, computers would scream strange sounds as they spoke with each other over phone lines. Of course, this is dial up, the predecessor to modern internet technology, offering laughable ...

Though considered a dying breed by most, dial-up connections are still used by many users staying in hotels without high-speed access, or in geographical regions to which broadband connectivity does ...

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 Dial-up has largely been replaced by broadband internet.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