The three-piece genre-fluid band Dial Tone rehearses in the basement of guitarist Cole Pivec’s house in the Linden Hills neighborhood of southwest Minneapolis. It is a setting natural to any college ...

AOL’s dial-up internet service has officially gone offline. The company had announced last month in a brief support site update that the service would shut down and it went dark Tuesday. AOL explained ...

CNN senior data analyst Harry Enten looks at AOL dial-up’s massive impact during the rise of the internet in mainstream culture.

In the days of yore, computers would scream strange sounds as they spoke with each other over phone lines. Of course, this is dial up, the predecessor to modern internet technology, offering laughable ...

When was the last time you heard a dial tone? If you're young enough, you might not even know what a dial tone is. You might not understand that we used to hear a droning buzz whenever we picked up ...

In a college house near the East Bank campus of the University of Minnesota, there is a spacious walk-in closet where the band Dial Tone recorded their self-titled debut album. Dial Tone consists of ...