dial-up
adjective
: relating to or being a standard telephone line used for computer communications
also
: accessible via a standard telephone line
a dial-up Internet provider
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That was my first kind of in [to fragrances], going to the Bath & Body Works at the mall, smelling everything and trying stuff with my friends and then going home and watching Lizzie McGuire and using an actual dial-up beep-beep phone.
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Hedy Phillips, People.com, 2 May 2025
The pace of change makes the dot-com era look like dial-up.
—Alex Goryachev, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Having grown up in the early nineties, Andy Koh, 33, remembers the good old days before social media, when dial-up internet existed, and when phones still had a wire attached to them.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
The oldest came of age as the world made the transition to online connectivity through AOL and dial-up.
—Sebastiaan Verhaar, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
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Hedy Phillips, People.com, 2 May 2025
The pace of change makes the dot-com era look like dial-up.
—Alex Goryachev, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Having grown up in the early nineties, Andy Koh, 33, remembers the good old days before social media, when dial-up internet existed, and when phones still had a wire attached to them.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
The oldest came of age as the world made the transition to online connectivity through AOL and dial-up.
—Sebastiaan Verhaar, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for dial-up
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“Dial-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dial-up. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
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