In an era dominated by broadband and wireless cellular networks, it might come as a surprise to many that dial-up internet services still exist in the United States. This persistence is not a mere ...

My brother has a several years old Gateway tower that he uses for a dialup connection to his ISP, Qwest.net. It's a Pentium II 500 with an ISA USR 56k modem, running Win98.<BR>A couple weeks ago the ...

If you were born after wifi, the dial-up modem noise is what electronics used to sound like: dated, from the era of the fax machine and the non-customizable ringtone. To me, it’s more than that. The ...

Remember dial-up? It wasn’t so long ago that a 56K modem was the default method of getting online. The unforgettable sound of a successful connection. The undisputable inconvenience of occupying the ...

In reply to our item last week, where we noted that we could not connect via our dial-up modem after our cable modem went down: Several readers (including William Kucharski, Bud Jenschke, and C. L.

It’s the end of an era. AOL announced this week that it has discontinued its dial-up internet service. For younger Gen-Xers and elder millennials, in particular, the beep-boops, whirrs, and crackly ...

Also BBSes, which were also huge time sinks. I ended up bringing in a second phone line to my parents' house, and then a third line when I wanted to run a BBS. But the house was only wired for two, so ...

Internet pioneer AOL is shuttering its dial-up service at the end of September after 30 years of providing its landline-based online connectivity. “AOL routinely evaluates its products and services ...

The Internet blackout in Egypt serves as an excellent case study for the kind of disaster any IT department should be ready to face. Backup systems must be in place for the day when servers crash, a ...