Yes, dial-up internet, with those screechy, crackly tones, remains a useful tool in areas where modern, high-speed internet services are either unaffordable or unavailable.

If you’re a sporadic internet user, Juno even allows you to use 10 hours of dial-up internet for free each month. There may also be local companies that offer internet.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The nation’s two top dial-up Internet providers are jumping into different lifeboats as the broadband Internet wave threatens to sink their leaky business models. It remains ...

This is a far cry from the early days of the internet when dial-up was the predominant way to get online. When modems offered a maximum speed of 56,000 bits per second, downloading a single photo ...

The Pew Research Center reports that around 3% of American Internet users are still using dial-up services as their means for going online, a percentage that hasn’t change since 2011.

Over coffee this week, my friend mentioned the internet provider NetZero might still offer dial-up service in the Triangle. I was shocked, but sure enough, the company lists several access numbers ...