Why “Dial-up” is being discussed
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Like others mentioned, the intention is great but too much AI. The icons do not even look remotely close to the dial-up computers. When it disconnects, the reconnection sound is…
by h4kunamata · Oct 1, 2026
do those dial-up numbers still work?
by fragmede · Oct 1, 2026
56k dial-up was a special upgrade from US Robotics and only some providers/numbers would have that speed. Yeah, as you said, more likely you will end up with 28.8 (based on…
by harikb · Oct 1, 2026
> the manufacturers hadn't standardized the speeds Yeah, but there was pretty much two options x2 (usr) and kflex (everyone else). I dunno about AOL and those guys, but for ISPs…
by toast0 · Oct 1, 2026
Depends what you mean. There's 'offline by default at home' and 'offline by default overall'. And it can blur. At least as far as 'offline by default at home' After (1) my dad r…
by to11mtm · Oct 1, 2026
Lovely. 16MB of RAM in the 90s? That's luxury. And that dial-up sound always takes me back to happier times. Not unlike normal people's childhood songs.
by artyom · Oct 1, 2026
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Dial-up Internet access is a form of Internet access that uses the facilities of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to establish a connection to an Internet service provider (ISP) by dialing a telephone number on a conventional telephone line which could be connected using an RJ-11 connector. Dial-up connections use modems to decode audio signals into data to send to a router or computer, and to encode signals from the latter two devices to send to another modem at the ISP. Read more on Wikipedia