How to Use dial-up in a Sentence

dial-up

adjective

• The pace of change makes the dot-com era look like dial-up.
  — Alex Goryachev, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
• Or send them a message saying ‘Call Me’ with just an old dial-up phone as the image.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 31 July 2024
• Online friend-making has been around in some form since dial-up.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
• Ward, who is 38, remembers a dial-up connection in his home as a kid.
  — Allison Aubrey, NPR, 24 Feb. 2025
• The theatrics of it all enough to inspire Jenner to dial-up her own powers of seduction.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2024
• Think of it like upgrading from dial-up modem speeds to broadband speeds.
  — Billal Hammoud, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• 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
• If your daily-driver is a Tesla, this will seem like switching from broadband to dial-up.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 10 May 2023
• These were days of dial-up modems and wired connections, when people used cellphones only to make and receive calls.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 6 Jan. 2025
• One was the availability of broadband internet, which was faster than the dial-up connections of the 1990s.
  — The Conversation, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2023
• Think of it less like launching a new app and more like Wall Street quietly swapping out dial-up for fiber internet.
  — Eric Piscini, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
• This was unavoidable in the age of dial-up, when the Internet connection would get disrupted any time a parent had to use the phone line.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2024
• An actual floppy disk drive for old games would have been rad, though, as would a crusty 28K modem to use for dial-up internet.
  — Mitch Wallace, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
• The charming drone of a dial-up tone has been replaced by Slack pings, text message buzzes and an iPhone alarm designed to activate our fight or flight senses.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2024
• This website was around in the 1990s when online dating was done by dial-up and was heavily stigmatized.
  — Sabrina Talbert, Women's Health, 15 Apr. 2023
• The problem was his town of 1,400 people had only dial-up internet service.
  — Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• In the ever-expanding universe of obsolete sounds, few can compare to the confident yawp of a dial-up modem.
  — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2025
• Shade liked watching birds but was also listening intently to the dial-up modem’s buzz.
  — Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
• The few people who had home Internet relied on dial-up because broadband wasn’t available yet.
  — Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
• The company is hoping the product appeals to consumers who grew up in the 1990s when LAN parties, dial-up internet, and floppy disk drives were common.
  — PC Magazine, 23 July 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
• Marvel Comics became a digital pioneer way back in the age of dial-up Internet.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2024
• Pop-up ads aren’t new, as anyone who remembers dial-up internet can attest.
  — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 1 Dec. 2023
• And the connections out to remote employees become super low-bandwidth—like dial-up speed.
  — Yec, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• Anyone who’s old enough to remember dial-up internet may suffer flashbacks trying to get on to some Delta 8 THC websites.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
• In 1993, after dial-up but before smartphones, the cartoonist Peter Steiner published a drawing in the New Yorker that would come to define the early years of life online.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
• 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
• 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 first wave came ashore in the 1990s with the arrival of dial-up internet access, which made personal computers good for something beyond word processing and basic games.
  — Jonathan Haidt, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2024
• 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