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 ...

I don’t think I’ll ever forget the sound—the chaotic screeching, static bursts, and electronic beeps that meant you were about to step out onto the World Wide Web. That unmistakable dial-up handshake ...

WASHINGTON — The sound that defined the early days of the internet is about to go silent forever. AOL is set to shut down its dial-up internet service, ending more than three decades of the iconic ...

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 ...

For anyone who lived through the dial-up era, those screeches and beeps are unforgettable — but each sound actually meant ...

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 ...

AOL says it will phase out its dial-up service at the end of September this year, ending the iconic dial-up sound, a nostalgic relic from the '90s and early '00s. The company, also known by its ...