After more than 30 years, AOL is pulling the plug on its dial-up internet service. Yep — those screechy modem sounds that defined the ‘90s will be gone for good. On September 30th, AOL will shut down ...

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 ...

Dial-up modems used to be the default way of accessing the Internet, but times have moved on. They’re now largely esoteric relics from a time gone by. With regular old phone lines rather hard to come ...