Remember dial-up internet? One of its biggest providers says it's time to retire the service – one of the first ways people could get online – after more than three decades. American online service ...

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 ...

Beep, bop, boop, boooopp, scrsssshh… 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.

The AOL dial-up internet service of the World Wide Web’s early days – known for its nostalgic beeps and chirps – is coming to an end. The company – owned by Marc Rowan-led asset management giant ...

Also BBSes, which were also huge time sinks. I ended up bringing in a second phone line to my parents' house, and then a third line when I wanted to run a BBS. But the house was only wired for two, so ...