Long before the vwip! of iMessage and the funky beats of the Skype startup song, digital communication had a strange soundtrack. Dial-up modems, which connected to servers and other computers via ...

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 ...

AOL is ending its dial-up internet service after more than 30 years, marking the end of an early online era. Learn about its ...

Telephone dial tones are one aspect of modern life that we take for granted, but there is a history there. Wikipedia offers some interesting reading on the subject. Back in 1954 when Bell Telephone, ...

In the hazy impressions of memory, some may even recall it fondly: The AOL dial-up internet service that those of a certain age associate with the World Wide Web is coming to a close. The company, ...

Broadband and wireless options ultimately emerged and dominated over the more old-school dial-up service for most internet ...