The Family Handyman on MSN

You’ve Got No Mail: AOL Is Pulling the Plug on Dial-Up

AOL is ending its dial-up internet service after more than 30 years, marking the end of an early online era. Learn about its ...
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 ...

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 ...
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AOL's dial up internet takes its last bow, marking the end of an era

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 ...
Newser on MSN

RIP, AOL Dial-Up

As NBC News reports, the plug is being pulled on AOL's dial-up service—which once spawned a Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan rom-com named after its signature "You've got mail!" welcome and counted 20 million users ...

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.