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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Spike, meanwhile, has never heard of smartphones or the internet — both of which are flourishing in the real world beyond Britain’s borders — and, ever playful, Boyle often drops the ancient sound of a dial-up modem into the ominous score by Young Fathers.
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Damon Wise, Deadline, 18 June 2025
These systems connected personal computer users, using dial-up modems, to a mainframe running proprietary software.
—ArsTechnica, 10 June 2025
Think of low latency as a perfectly functioning Zoom call and high latency as a buffering one (while my younger employees don't remember the dial-up modem noise, it's still seared in my brain).
—Jennifer Sanders, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
Indeed, an elder millennial born in 1981 or 1982 will remember the days of dial-up internet and a time before cellphones were glued to our hands.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
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Damon Wise, Deadline, 18 June 2025
These systems connected personal computer users, using dial-up modems, to a mainframe running proprietary software.
—ArsTechnica, 10 June 2025
Think of low latency as a perfectly functioning Zoom call and high latency as a buffering one (while my younger employees don't remember the dial-up modem noise, it's still seared in my brain).
—Jennifer Sanders, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
Indeed, an elder millennial born in 1981 or 1982 will remember the days of dial-up internet and a time before cellphones were glued to our hands.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
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“Dial-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dial-up. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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