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 ends dial-up service, closing the book on '90s internet era

Microsoft retired video calling service Skype just earlier this year — as well as Internet Explorer back in 2022. And in 2017 ...

AOL hangs up the dial-up internet service (and sound) that defined an era

Last month, a company webpage titled "Dial-up Internet to be discontinued" stated that the service would be discontinued.
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 pulses that connected millions before broadband existed.
Yahoo

With a final screech, AOL's dial-up service goes silent

An ad for free email on the AOL website in 2006. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images file) A beacon of the early internet is about to be silenced. AOL’s dial-up internet service is shutting down Tuesday, ...