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 ...

The Stax SRS-X1000 – which combines the SR-X1 and SRM-270S – is on sale now, and in the United Kingdom it’s priced at £1095. It’s a slightly less punishing $980 in the United States. While in ...

A chapter of internet history is coming to a close in the United States: AOL will shut down its dial-up internet service on ...

The dozen modems connected to the Windows XP machine achieved a combined connection speed of 668.8 kbps, offering blistering ...

Category 5 Hurricane Katrina on August 28, 2005, as seen from NOAA’s AVHRR instrument. I first started blogging for Weather Underground, the weather service I founded, in the spring of 2005. For the ...

Area man Bob Unruh was excited to join the Internet age this week only to discover a couple days later that his snazzy new dial-up connection was being cut off. “Oba, America Online? American Offline ...

A collection of CDs advertising AOL's dial-up internet services Sipa USA / Alamy Live News It was the soundtrack of the early internet: When AOL dial-up users wanted to go online in the 1990s, they ...

Laptop computer displaying logo of AOL, an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City *For many, the screeching tones of a dial-up modem evoke memories of the internet’s ...

Before Wi-Fi blanketed our lives and smartphones kept us online 24/7, the patient, scratchy sound of AOL’s dial-up connection served as the gateway to the internet for its first explorers. Next month, ...

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.