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 ...

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 ...

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WASHINGTON — The sound that defined the early days of the internet is going silent forever. AOL is shutting down its dial-up internet service on Tuesday, ending more than three decades of the iconic ...

Laptop computer displaying logo of AOL, an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City *For many, the screeching tones of a dial-up modem evoke memories of the internet’s ...

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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, ...

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 Dial-up has largely been replaced by broadband internet.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