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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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.
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Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
In keeping with the era, Chalabi says the animation for the code-switch came after the team heard multiple ‘code-switch sounds’, with the dial-up sound being closest to her vision for the experience.
—Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 13 May 2025
The music goes for horror-movie ambience, building the dystopian mood with eerie samples of human screams, sobs, phone alarms, howling sax, even an old-school dial-up modem.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2025
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.
—Hedy Phillips, People.com, 2 May 2025
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Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
In keeping with the era, Chalabi says the animation for the code-switch came after the team heard multiple ‘code-switch sounds’, with the dial-up sound being closest to her vision for the experience.
—Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 13 May 2025
The music goes for horror-movie ambience, building the dystopian mood with eerie samples of human screams, sobs, phone alarms, howling sax, even an old-school dial-up modem.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2025
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.
—Hedy Phillips, People.com, 2 May 2025
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“Dial-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dial-up. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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