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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Marvel Comics became a digital pioneer way back in the age of dial-up Internet.
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Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2024
In 2000, the World Wide Web was in its dial-up AOL phase; Mark Zuckerberg was in high school.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2024
Or send them a message saying ‘Call Me’ with just an old dial-up phone as the image.
—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
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Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2024
In 2000, the World Wide Web was in its dial-up AOL phase; Mark Zuckerberg was in high school.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2024
Or send them a message saying ‘Call Me’ with just an old dial-up phone as the image.
—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
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“Dial-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dial-up. Accessed 30 Oct. 2024.
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