AOL, which merged with Time Warner in 2000 in a deal widely deemed disastrous, boasted more than 30 million subscribers at the end of 2001.

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, ...

America Online, famous for its marketing campaigns, will shut down its dial-up internet service at the end of next month.

AOL is set to shut down the dial-up internet service that once was the symbol of internet connectivity after over 40 years. A company webpage titled "Dial-up Internet to be discontinued" states that ...

(CNN) – AOL is ditching dial-up. The internet service was once the biggest name in internet service connectivity and is a vestige of the early days of the World Wide Web. Many who remember the ...

Dear friends, it is time to pour one out for the iconic, screeching sound of a modem connecting to the internet. AOL, a name synonymous with the early days of the world wide web, has announced it will ...

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AOL is killing its dial-up internet. First introduced commercially in 1989 and made largely obsolescent in the 2000s by the spread of broadband, the company perhaps most associated with the technology ...

Mary Cunningham is a reporter for CBS MoneyWatch. Before joining the business and finance vertical, she worked at "60 Minutes," CBSNews.com and CBS News 24/7 as part of the CBS News Associate Program.