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, ...

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 ...

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It was the soundtrack of the early internet: When AOL dial-up users wanted to go online in the 1990s, they heard the instantly recognizable sequence of beeps and buzzes. The cacophony indicated that ...

A beacon of the early internet is about to be silenced. AOL’s dial-up internet service is shutting down Tuesday, ending one of the web’s first mainstream access points. Stream Los Angeles News for ...

PHOENIX - In what can be described as the end of an era, the company formerly known as "America Online" is ending its dial-up internet service. According to the Associated Press, AOL rose to ...

AOL’s dial-up Internet service was a cornerstone of getting online in the ’90s, and while the majority of us don’t use it anymore, it’s still been happily chugging along in the background. Until now.

Beep, bop, boop, boooopp, scrsssshh… 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.