The ‘you’ve got mail’ era already feels like a lifetime ago, but in the week dial-up connections are finally turned off by AOL, Liam Murphy-Robledo talks to the pioneers of commercial dial-up internet ...
This AOL announcement has sparked memories of the distinctive modem sounds that once signaled your gateway to the online ...
In the days of yore, computers would scream strange sounds as they spoke with each other over phone lines. Of course, this is dial up, the predecessor to modern internet technology, offering ...
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 ...