When the boy dials out to connect me to his boss, it's on an ancient rotary-dial phone, mud-brown.
Valley geeks were already hopping onto Wi-Fi hotspots and playing with "smart" phones, but most people were still dialling up to connect to the internet and using mobile phones only for talking.
If you are having trouble placing a call and are calling from the US, dial 00 to connect with an international operator for assistance.
I use a dial-up modem to connect to the Internet, but I lose my connection if I fail to use the browser constantly.
I was forced to dial long-distance to connect as the nearest AOL server station was 200 miles away.
But it is a poor way to handle data.The problems are all too familiar to those who use conventional landlines and dial-up modems to connect to the Internet.
Ms. Wintz, a real estate agent who lives in Pryor, Okla., about 40 miles northeast of Tulsa, uses a standard dial-up modem to connect through her local Internet service provider.
Really, back when we all started using dial-up modems to connect to the Internet to access the World Wide Web, weren't the dropping costs and rising resolutions of LCDs supposed to make these disposable, cheap, common-place toys?
Instead of relying upon 3G to tweet the time and location of the next rally, maybe you'll have to use a dial-up modem to connect to a Spanish ISP?
Participants could dial a phone number to connect to the instrument, then press different number keys to change pitches, tones and beats while they collaboratively created a sound loop, which was displayed as a grid on a television screen.
