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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Or send them a message saying ‘Call Me’ with just an old dial-up phone as the image.
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Chloe Schama, Vogue, 31 July 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
The images reek of an age before Instagram and TSA PreCheck—of dial-up, AOL, and Tony Blair in office.
—Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Oct. 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
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Chloe Schama, Vogue, 31 July 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
The images reek of an age before Instagram and TSA PreCheck—of dial-up, AOL, and Tony Blair in office.
—Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Oct. 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
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“Dial-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dial-up. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.
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