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 ...
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 ...

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.
syracuse.com

AOL pulls the plug on the service that defined the 90s internet

It’s official: 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 ...
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 ...
Yahoo

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

(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, ending one of the web’s first mainstream access ...