Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AOL is set to shut down the dial-up internet service that once was the symbol of internet connectivity after over 40 years. A ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The distinctive sounds of dial-up internet have been preserved in a new audio compilation that takes listeners through the evolution of modem technology. From sluggish 300 bps connections to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...