After decades of connecting US subscribers to its online service and the internet through telephone lines, AOL recently announced it is finally shutting down its dial-up modem service on September 30, ...

Dial-up is officially dead at Kansas University. At its peak in 1999, about 7,000 people used KU’s telephone-based “dial-up” Internet service to surf the Web and check e-mail. Today, as more people ...

The nation's two top dial-up Internet providers are jumping into different lifeboats as the broadband Internet wave threatens to sink their leaky business models. It remains unclear whether either ...

In an era dominated by broadband and wireless cellular networks, it might come as a surprise to many that dial-up internet services still exist in the United States. This persistence is not a mere ...

On September 30, AOL's dial-up hold-outs will need to finally move on to another internet service. AOL announced this week that it will be discontinuing its dial-up service next month, which probably ...

The lowly analog modem once provided the de facto soundtrack of the Internet: a soothing dial-tone hum followed by a crescendo of beeping, screeching and scratching before a friendly "You've got mail" ...

There are few things less hip than dial-up Internet access. Most folks don't even remember what a dial-up modem sounds (or looks) like. Nevertheless, there are millions of people that use pokey ...

This series explores aspects of America that may soon be just a memory -- some to be missed, some gladly left behind. From the least impactful to the most, here are 25 bits of vanishing America. When ...