Dial-up modems had a distinctive sound when connecting, with the glittering, screeching song becoming a familiar melody to those jumping online in the early days of the Internet. Modern digital ...

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 ...

Anyone who used the internet in the 1980s or 1990s vividly remembers the signature dial-up sound that meant a computer was connecting to the internet. That’s because in the early days of the web, ...

It’s the end of an era. AOL announced this week that it has discontinued its dial-up internet service. For younger Gen-Xers and elder millennials, in particular, the beep-boops, whirrs, and crackly ...

Older generations remember the sound of dial-up internet from the 90s and early 2000s, but what was once the soundtrack to an era is coming to an end. On Sept. 30, AOL would discontinue its dial-up ...

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 heyday of the '90s internet service provider is worth remembering Most of us probably moved on from dial-up decades ago, but AOL, or as most people who grew up in the ‘90s and early aughts might ...

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 Dial-up has largely been replaced by broadband internet.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