About 50 college campuses across the United States in recent weeks received hoax calls about armed gunmen and other violence.

If you want a modern phone line without the old phone bill, Google Voice is one of the simplest ways to get there. Individuals can call and text in the U.S.

Dispatch call centers often are the last lines of defense against swatters, a burden in an era of mass shootings.

34 years ago, America Online changed just about everything. The day AOL arrived (how did the L in online get its own letter in the acronym?) was like the first day of a brand new Wild West. So much ...

34 years ago, America Online changed just about everything. The day AOL arrived (how did the L in online get its own letter in the acronym?) was like the first day of a brand new Wild West. So much ...

This week’s announcement that AOL will be discontinuing its dial-up internet access service on September 30 triggered a bout of nostalgia in me—an internet dinosaur who first dialed up to ARPANET in ...

People who are coming up in the modern age truly have no clue how much the way we communicate has changed since the early 1990s. Long before we had iPhones with 5G service, long before we had smart ...

South Africa, like much of the world, has largely moved past dial-up. AOL, which started as American Online and gave the world “You've Got Mail” in 1993 – later likely inspiring the 1998 hit movie of ...

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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 ...

(The Hill) — Internet pioneer AOL is shuttering its dial-up service at the end of September after 30 years of providing its landline-based online connectivity. “AOL routinely evaluates its products ...