The end has come for AOL's dial-up service and the author who wrote "AOL for Dummies" reflects on the end of an era which helped millions of people navigate online access for the first time.
AOL previously confirmed it would be pulling the plug on Tuesday (Sept. 30) — writing in a brief update on its support site last month that it “routinely evaluates” its offerings and had decided to ...
Well, we knew this day was coming: dial-up internet is officially dead—at least as far as AOL is concerned. As of September 30, you can no longer revel in the nostalgia of either the AOL Dialer ...
When AOL announced that it would be ending its dial-up service, it sparked a buzz on Reddit. Many chatters were surprised that dial-up still existed in this era of fast-speed Internet, and others ...
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 YouTube channel The Serial Port has pulled off something few imagined possible in the broadband era: streaming YouTube over a dial-up connection. In their latest ...
T he latest episode published by tech channel The Serial Port began with an interesting question: Is it possible to stream YouTube via dial-up internet? As the headline suggests, ...
There’s an old golf platitude about Cypress Point being the greatest 17-hole course in the world. The layout is nothing but dazzling from the first tee onward. Then you play the 18th, tacking narrowly ...