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 ...
AOL itself is far from the dominant internet player it was decades ago — when, beyond dial-up and IMs, the company also became known for its “You’ve got mail” catchphrase that greeted users who ...
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 ...
Last month, a company webpage titled "Dial-up Internet to be discontinued" stated that the service would be discontinued.
Apollo Global Management is exploring a sale of early internet darling AOL after receiving inbound interest in the business, according to people familiar with the matter. Any deal could value AOL at ...
An ad for free email on the AOL website in 2006. (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, ...
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.
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