Dial-up modems used to be the default way of accessing the Internet, but times have moved on. They’re now largely esoteric relics from a time gone by. With regular old phone lines rather hard to come ...

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 ...

TL;DR: A YouTube creator successfully streamed video by bonding 12 phone lines together to showcase the raw potential of obsolete technology. The resulting connection delivered just under one megabit ...

Dial-up modems had a distinctive sound when connecting, with the glittering, screeching song becoming a familiar melody to those jumping online in the early days of the Internet. Modern digital ...

The opposite of cutting-edge: It's the era of 5G and gigabit-speed internet, and dial-up connections are dead in most places. However, that hasn't stopped a Japanese company from rolling out a ...

Older generations remember the sound of dial-up internet from the 90s and early 2000s, but what was once the soundtrack to an era is coming to an end. On Sept. 30, AOL would discontinue its dial-up ...