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.
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You’ve Got No Mail: AOL Is Pulling the Plug on Dial-Up

After more than three decades, AOL is officially retiring its dial-up internet service. The change will take effect Sept. 30, ...
Yahoo

AOL’s dial-up internet shuts down this September

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, ...
Inc

After 34 Years, AOL Is Finally Hanging Up on the Internet’s Most Iconic Sound. It’s Truly the End of an Era

I don’t think I’ll ever forget the sound—the chaotic screeching, static bursts, and electronic beeps that meant you were about to step out onto the World Wide Web. That unmistakable dial-up handshake ...
Houston Public Media

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

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 ...
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After 34 Years, AOL Is Finally Hanging Up on the Internet’s Most Iconic Sound. It’s Truly the End of an Era

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 ...