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The Sounds of AOL Dial-Up Defined the Early Internet. Now, the Service Is Shutting Down for Good

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 ...
New Orleans City Business

AOL’s dial up internet takes its last bow, marking the end of an era

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 ...
Newsday

Long Islanders lament (sort of) the dialing down of AOL dial-up

A moment of reflection, if you will, for AOL dial-up, the service that brought a generation of Long Islanders to the internet, and now is on the brink of its demise. The service and accompanying ...
AOL

AOL Shuts Down Dial-Up for Good — But Tributes Pour in for the Nostalgic Service

The end of an era. AOL has officially hung up the phone on its decades-spanning dial-up internet service. The corporation previously announced that these specific services would be discontinued on ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

Say bye-bye to the beeps and boops of AOL's dial-up internet service

AOL debuted the service in 1989. Dial-up has largely been replaced by broadband internet. Say bye-bye to the beeps and boops of AOL's dial-up internet service Beep, bop, boop, boooopp, scrsssshh… Such ...
PBS

AOL ends dial-up internet service, marking the end of an era

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...
The Times Leader

Recession Could Lengthen The Twilight Of Dial-up

With the costs of home-schooling a special-needs child, Arlene Dawes of Raleigh, N.C., says dial-up Internet is more attuned to her budget than broadband. Chuck Hester says the high-speed Internet ...