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.

Why Gen Z wants retro dial-up connections – and how the internet could be driven to extinction

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 ...

End of an era: AOL discontinues dial-up internet service after more than 30 years

The company, once considered the pioneer of internet connectivity, issued a statement last month on its webpage announcing ...
Yahoo

AOL’s dial-up internet shuts down this September

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, ...

AOL officially ends dial-up internet after 35 years

AOL has officially shut down its dial-up internet service, a technology that once connected millions of Americans online in the 1990s. The iconic dial-up sound is now a thing of the past. Broadband ...
Des Moines Register

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

Older generations remember the sound of dial-up internet from the 90s and early 2000s, but what was once the soundtrack to an era is coming to an end. On Sept. 30, AOL would discontinue its dial-up ...