AOL dial-up says goodbye. Without Apple, it might not have changed the world

Macworld
Aug 11, 2025, 12:54 pm171 pts
Macworld You young whippersnappers out there, pull up a chair and let me tell you about a more innocent time. Way before you could connect to the internet out of thin air, you had to use what was called a dial-up connection. A box called a modem was connected to your computer, and it used a phone line to call…

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