If you're one of the "low thousands" still using AOL to connect to the internet, you need to start shopping around.After more than 40 years, AOL announced it will discontinue its dial-up internet ...

Before Wi-Fi blanketed our lives and smartphones kept us online 24/7, the patient, scratchy sound of AOL’s dial-up connection served as the gateway to the internet for its first explorers. Next month, ...

AOL, an internet pioneer that brought millions of Americans online for the first time, is discontinuing its dial-up service next month. The company that brought the internet to the masses in the 1990s ...

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 ...

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, ...

The shrill squeal and static burst of a dial-up modem once filled millions of homes. That unique sound was the gateway to a new world. It promised email, chat rooms, and websites. America Online, or ...

New York — AOL's dial-up internet is finally taking its last bow. Yes, while perhaps a dinosaur by today's digital standards, dial-up is still around. But AOL says it's officially pulling the plug for ...

It’s official: AOL’s dial-up internet has taken its last bow. AOL previously confirmed it would be pulling the plug on Tuesday (Sept. 30) — writing in a brief update on its support site last month ...

A woman walks by the AOL corporate headquarters on Broadway May 28, 2009 in New York City. Media titan Time Warner announced today that it is spinning off its AOL advertising-and-dial-up unit into a ...