If you were born after wifi, the dial-up modem noise is what electronics used to sound like: dated, from the era of the fax machine and the non-customizable ringtone. To me, it’s more than that. The ...

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 ...

In the days of yore, computers would scream strange sounds as they spoke with each other over phone lines. Of course, this is dial up, the predecessor to modern internet technology, offering laughable ...

In the early days of the Internet, having a high-speed IP connection in your home or even a small business was, if not ...

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 ...

My brother has a several years old Gateway tower that he uses for a dialup connection to his ISP, Qwest.net. It's a Pentium II 500 with an ISA USR 56k modem, running Win98.<BR>A couple weeks ago the ...

More than 40 years after starting as a very early Apple service, AOL has finally ended its dial-up Internet service, shuttering a service that helped usher in the Internet age for tens of millions of ...

Remember dial-up? It wasn’t so long ago that a 56K modem was the default method of getting online. The unforgettable sound of a successful connection. The undisputable inconvenience of occupying the ...

In reply to our item last week, where we noted that we could not connect via our dial-up modem after our cable modem went down: Several readers (including William Kucharski, Bud Jenschke, and C. L.

The Internet blackout in Egypt serves as an excellent case study for the kind of disaster any IT department should be ready to face. Backup systems must be in place for the day when servers crash, a ...

Having duplicate modem scripts in both the System Library folder (System/Library/Modem Scripts) and the user Library folder (user/Library/Modem Scripts) under Mac OS X 10.2.x can cause external and ...