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, ...

PHOENIX - In what can be described as the end of an era, the company formerly known as "America Online" is ending its dial-up internet service. According to the Associated Press, AOL rose to ...

AOL, which merged with Time Warner in 2000 in a deal widely deemed disastrous, boasted more than 30 million subscribers at the end of 2001.

America Online, the internet pioneer of the early 1990s, changed its name to AOL in 2006. In 2017, it shut down the popular instant messaging service AIM, and the company was sold to Apollo Global ...

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 ...

FILE-The homepage of America Online is pictured on a computer screen. (Photo by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images) AOL plans to shut down its dial-up internet service, which has been a staple ...

How a Beeping Modem Turned Into Lightning-Fast Connection Everywhere? Once upon a time - and not even that long ago - using the internet meant blocking your entire phone line, listening to a series of ...

The company will no longer offer its dial-up internet service after September 30. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the sound—the chaotic screeching, static bursts, and electronic beeps that meant you ...

AOL rose in popularity in the 1990s, giving Americans an entry point to the online world through instant messaging and email features. Originally known as America Online, the company changed its name ...

AOL’s dial-up internet service is ending on Sept. 30. The service will no longer be available on user plans, according to the company. Established in the mid-1980s, AOL is well-known for "You’ve got ...