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 Serial Port used multilink PPP to bond a dozen 56K modems, achieving what may be a world record for vintage hardware ...

The landline-based service once played a dominant role in culture, exposing tens of millions to the internet and inspiring a Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan movie. If you’re using AOL dial-up internet to read this ...

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. "AOL routinely evaluates its ...