A first-of-its-kind electronic message is sent from UCLA to the Stanford Research Institute. The first message was to be ...

This week’s announcement that AOL will be discontinuing its dial-up internet access service on September 30 triggered a bout of nostalgia in me—an internet dinosaur who first dialed up to ARPANET in ...

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 ...

For millions, the first time they went online sounded like this: a click, a dial tone, a burst of static, a high-pitched screech, and then — if the internet gods smiled — silence, followed by a cheery ...

AOL said its dial-up internet service will be discontinued as of Sept. 30. At one time, AOL had more than 34 million customers worldwide. AOL made it easy for even inexperienced users to get online.

AOL, an internet pioneer that brought millions of Americans online for the first time, is discontinuing its dial-up service next month. The company that brought the internet to the masses in the 1990s ...

WASHINGTON — The sound that defined the early days of the internet is going silent forever. AOL is shutting down its dial-up internet service on Tuesday, ending more than three decades of the iconic ...

AOL officially pulled the plug on its dial-up internet service Tuesday, ending the screeching modem tones that once defined getting online in America. The company quietly announced the move last month ...