After decades of connecting US subscribers to its online service and the internet through telephone lines, AOL recently announced it is finally shutting down its dial-up modem service on September 30, ...

It was the soundtrack of the early internet: When AOL dial-up users wanted to go online in the 1990s, they heard the instantly recognizable sequence of beeps and buzzes. The cacophony indicated that ...

AOL has announced it is to discontinue its dial-up internet service and associated software next month, marking the end of a product that has been part of consumer internet access for more than three ...

AOL just announced that it is ending dial-up Internet service forever. The service and all associated software will stop working on September 30, 2025. In 2023, 163,000 United States households relied ...

AOL’s dial-up Internet service was a cornerstone of getting online in the ’90s, and while the majority of us don’t use it anymore, it’s still been happily chugging along in the background. Until now.

The internet is changing rapidly, but the death of dial-up has been slow. According to The New York Times, in 2023 dial-up still served an estimated 163,000 households in the United States, or just ...

AOL will officially discontinue its dial-up internet service on September 30, pulling the plug on an era that defined early internet access for millions of Americans. Image credit: Retrohead The Yahoo ...

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 ...