AOL hangs up the dial-up internet service (and sound) that defined an era

Last month, a company webpage titled "Dial-up Internet to be discontinued" stated that the service would be discontinued.
The New York Times

AOL Will End Its Dial-Up Internet Service (Yes, It’s Still Operating)

The company said the service, synonymous with the early days of the internet, will be discontinued on Sept. 30. By Yan Zhuang AOL announced that its dial-up internet service will be discontinued next ...
TechSpot

Re-experience '90s internet with this new 56K dial-up modem

The opposite of cutting-edge: It's the era of 5G and gigabit-speed internet, and dial-up connections are dead in most places. However, that hasn't stopped a Japanese company from rolling out a ...
Yahoo

AOL will pull the plug on dial-up internet, '90s nostalgia ensues

AOL's dial-up internet, a service that has been running this whole time since the '90s, will be shut down next month. In a statement published Friday (h/t The New York Times), the pioneering online ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

The Big Internet Brands Of The '90s — Where Are They Now?

Verizon's purchase of Yahoo will close the book on one of the oldest Internet companies. What happened to the other famous '90s brands, like... Verizon is buying Yahoo for $4.8 billion, acquiring its ...

How the internet and Wi-Fi work: A guide to connections, data and the cloud

Your internet service provider (ISP) brings the internet into your home through a modem. A router then converts that signal ...