If you thought you needed broadband to be a part of the wireless generation, think again. The Actiontec Dual PC Modem is a simple hardware device that lets two computers share a dial-up Internet ...

The latest episode published by tech channel The Serial Port began with an interesting question: Is it possible to stream YouTube via dial-up internet? As the headline suggests, the answer is a ...

There are many different types of broadband connections available. With people tending to know very little about the wide range of different connections that are available and there being so much ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AOL is set to discontinue its dial-up internet service by the end of September, marking the end of an era for the landline-based connection that once introduced millions to the internet. At its peak ...

WASHINGTON — The sound that defined the early days of the internet is going silent forever. AOL is shutting down its dial-up internet service on Tuesday, ending more than three decades of the iconic ...