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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. [1]
It was one of the major internet service providers of the 1990s. The company claimed it was the first consumer online service, citing its graphical user interface and basic architecture as differentiation from CompuServe, which started in 1979 and used a command-line interface. [1]
Pipex was established in 1990 and began providing dial-up Internet access in March 1992, the UK's first commercial Internet service provider (ISP). [120] [121] One of its first customers that year was Demon Internet, which popularised dial up modem-based internet access in the UK. [122]
The new photobook “LAN Party” looks back at the era of online gaming, and gamers, in the 1990s and early ’00s — a time when web-based technology was in flux.
Access to the Internet can be divided into dial-up and broadband access. Around the start of the 21st century, most residential access was by dial-up, while access from businesses was usually by higher speed connections. In subsequent years dial-up declined in favor of broadband access.
The first commercial dial-up Internet Service Provider (ISP) appeared in capital cities soon after, [5] and by the mid-1990s, almost the entire country had a range of choices of dial-up ISPs. [5] Today, Internet access is available through a range of technologies, i.e. hybrid fibre coaxial cable, digital subscriber line (DSL), Integrated ...
Dial-up Internet access may be as fashionable as a double-knit suit, but the company that started the free dial-up craze says it will do the same thing for a wireless generation hooked on ...
1999: America Online has over 18 million subscribers and is now the biggest internet provider in the country, with higher-than-expected earnings. It acquires MapQuest for $1.1 billion in December.