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 ...

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, ...

It’s the end of an era. AOL announced this week that it has discontinued its dial-up internet service. For younger Gen-Xers and elder millennials, in particular, the beep-boops, whirrs, and crackly ...

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The next time you get frustrated because a website refuses to load instantly, or a streaming video has to buffer for a few seconds, think of the surprisingly large number of Canadians still on dial-up ...

QUESTION: My service Provider is Sympatico (dial-up) and my computer is one year old. My problem is that I continually lose my Internet connection for no apparent reason. Sometimes it will happen as ...

AOL Canada launched a new medium-speed internet service Thursday using Canadian technology to speed up standard dial-up service. Netscape Online uses a standard 56 kilobits-per-second telephone modem ...

TORONTO – The next time you get frustrated because a website refuses to load instantly, or a streaming video has to buffer for a few seconds, think of the surprisingly large number of Canadians still ...