The company will no longer offer its dial-up internet service after September 30. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the sound—the chaotic screeching, static bursts, and electronic beeps that meant you ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After 40 years, AOL has put to rest a service that was vital in shaping modern technology: dial-up internet. “AOL routinely ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I don’t think I’ll ever forget the sound—the chaotic screeching, static bursts, and electronic beeps that meant you were about to step out onto the World Wide Web. That unmistakable dial-up handshake ...