Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When we think about using the internet in the 1990s, there’s one specific sound that comes to mind. You can’t really describe it ...

If you're one of the "low thousands" still using AOL to connect to the internet, you need to start shopping around.After more than 40 years, AOL announced it will discontinue its dial-up internet ...

It’s official: AOL’s dial-up internet has taken its last bow. AOL previously confirmed it would be pulling the plug on Tuesday (September 30)—writing in a brief update on its support site last month ...

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, ...

AOL is killing its dial-up internet. First introduced commercially in 1989 and made largely obsolescent in the 1990s by the spread of broadband, the company perhaps most associated with the technology ...

It has been decades since many of us have heard the chaos of squeals, static and squawks of dial-up, but it does still exist, at least for the next few weeks. AOL announced that it will be hanging up ...

You do know that there are parts of the US, very rural places, that still rely on twisted copper wires for phone/internet...not even DSL, but dial up only. The telecoms were given money to wire them ...

When we think about using the internet in the 1990s, there’s one specific sound that comes to mind. You can’t really describe it in writing but you can surely recreate it with your voice. In fact, I ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s official: AOL’s dial-up internet has taken its last bow. AOL previously confirmed it would be pulling the plug on Tuesday (Sept. 30) — writing in a brief update on its support ...