Sentence examples for dialup from inspiring English sources

The Cuban Boys' 1999 hit Cognoscenti vs Intelligentsia was based on the hugely popular "hamster dance" song that itself proved an early viral sensation as dialup connections gave more and more families internet access, and says as much about that era as the Chainsmokers' recent viral hit #Selfie does about 2014.

If you wanted email on the move, your only option was a laptop and a dialup modem, which you would plug into a landline's phone socket.

It's reminiscent of the trojan programs from the dialup era, which used to infect PCs and call far-off countries for fun and profit.

No names, but some of us were coping pretty well in 1991 with laptops containing Intel 80386s and sending text files via dialup acoustic modems.

Her 2000 webcast from the Brixton Academy in London – during which she namechecked the white hot online forum Popbitch – broke viewing records at a point when most fans were still on dialup.

It's true that bandwidth has expanded hugely over the past 10 years; we're not working on MP3s encoded at 64 kilobits per second (kbps) so they can be squeezed down a phone line connected to a dialup modem.

Tony Blair was still prime minister, Facebook was virtually unheard of outside of the Ivy League, and broadband had only just begun to overtake dialup.

The previous two bubbles were built around sites and products that ran on desktop computers: the Netscape browser, AOL's monthly charge for a dialup internet connection, Yahoo's dominance as a destination for people checking news and email.

And the Surfboard accesses the Internet strictly via a dialup modem; you're out of luck if you prefer cable modem or D.S.L. It's worth checking the company's Web page at www.nadapc.com, too, to find out whether the company offers a local access number in your area.

AOL's purpose remains hard to define (even for its CEO) because it is a mish-mash of businesses incorporating surprisingly profitable dialup-internet subscriptions (you probably still have an AOL internet setup CD buried in a drawer at home), a web portal, search and email, technology businesses serving up digital and video ads, and content sites such as TechCrunch and Huffington Post.

"There's been very little innovation in 125 years of the public telephone network," said Jeff Pulver, founder of Free World Dialup.