The Family Handyman on MSN

You’ve Got No Mail: AOL Is Pulling the Plug on Dial-Up

After more than three decades, AOL is officially retiring its dial-up internet service. The change will take effect Sept. 30, ...
How-To Geek on MSN

Why Did AOL Wait Until Now to End Dial-up?

On September 30, AOL switched off its internet dial-up service for good, and anyone still using its dialer software or the ...

AOL's dial up internet takes its last bow, marking the end of an era

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 site last month that it “routinely ...
TipRanks on MSN

TMUS, VZ, T: End of an Era as Dial-Up Internet Goes Extinct

AOL has now removed advertisements for dial-up internet service from its website, bringing an end to the way all households accessed the World Wide Web in the 1990s and early 2000s. Until now, AOL had ...
Trace Dominguez on MSN

How Dial-Up Modems Used Sound to Talk to Each Other

Those chaotic screeches of dial-up weren’t random — they were data, tones encoding handshakes, carrier signals, and sync ...