After more than three decades, AOL is officially retiring its dial-up internet service. The change will take effect Sept. 30, ...

Last month, a company webpage titled "Dial-up Internet to be discontinued" stated that the service would be discontinued.

Dial-up modems had a distinctive sound when connecting, with the glittering, screeching song becoming a familiar melody to ...

This column is for people who remember — or who heard stories from their parents or grandparents — that staticky, buzzing ...

Walking along the winding path near Dumas Bay, a visitor might stumble upon a lone wooden box with a telephone inside. The ...

Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic remembers the sound of a dial-up modem so fondly that he has scoured the internet to find out exactly what all those grating tones meant. Alexis Madrigal at The ...

On Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone call to his assistant a few miles away — the first demonstration of ...

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 ...