Last month, a company webpage titled "Dial-up Internet to be discontinued" stated that the service would be discontinued.

T he latest episode published by tech channel The Serial Port began with an interesting question: Is it possible to stream ...

The ‘you’ve got mail’ era already feels like a lifetime ago, but in the week dial-up connections are finally turned off by AOL, Liam Murphy-Robledo talks to the pioneers of commercial dial-up internet ...

The company, once considered the pioneer of internet connectivity, issued a statement last month on its webpage announcing ...

The Serial Port used multilink PPP to bond a dozen 56K modems, achieving what may be a world record for vintage hardware ...

A LONG-STANDING internet provider is shutting down service today. The move marks a new chapter as the classic internet ...

The YouTube channel The Serial Port has pulled off something few imagined possible in the broadband era: streaming YouTube over a dial-up connection. In their latest ...

AOL announced this week that it has discontinued its dial-up internet service that younger Gen-Xers and elder millennials once relied on ...

In the days of yore, computers would scream strange sounds as they spoke with each other over phone lines. Of course, this is ...

AOL officially pulled the plug on its dial-up internet service Tuesday, ending the screeching modem tones that once defined ...

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 ...

Also BBSes, which were also huge time sinks. I ended up bringing in a second phone line to my parents' house, and then a third line when I wanted to run a BBS. But the house was only wired for two, so ...