If you’re old enough to have used a dial-up modem we’d bet you can do an imitation of the sounds it made while connecting. Those not-so-beautiful sounds heralded the dawning of a ...

Yes, dial-up internet, with those screechy, crackly tones, remains a useful tool in areas where modern, high-speed internet services are either unaffordable or unavailable. Subscriber numbers are ...

We spoke to Barker, who currently works on high-speed fiber deployment, about the creation of DSL and his three decades in broadband. Dial-up internet posed a problem for AT&T, and the underlying ...

The following acronyms are used with the status lights on an external analog dial-up modem ... control active HS High speed (4,800 bps and up) LB Low battery MR Modem ready (data set ready ...

Browser speed is measured in seconds or even milliseconds. This is a far cry from the early days of the internet when dial-up ...