How to Use dial-up in a Sentence
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Online friend-making has been around in some form since dial-up.
— Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 3 July 2023 -
The theatrics of it all enough to inspire Jenner to dial-up her own powers of seduction.
— Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2024 -
If your daily-driver is a Tesla, this will seem like switching from broadband to dial-up.
— Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 10 May 2023 -
One was the availability of broadband internet, which was faster than the dial-up connections of the 1990s.
— The Conversation, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2023 -
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 -
The charming drone of a dial-up tone has been replaced by Slack pings, text message buzzes and an iPhone alarm designed to activate our fight or flight senses.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 -
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 -
The shrill drone of dial-up is a defining feature of Kyle Mooney’s directorial debut Y2K, even if the actual sound plays only a few times throughout the comedian’s brash and lopsided film.
— Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2024 -
Imagine using a cutting-edge smartphone but with a dial-up Internet connection.
— Rajan Kohli, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023 -
The technology led to high-speed Internet, with data capacities and transmission rates that were unimaginable with dial-up systems.
— IEEE Spectrum, 18 Jan. 2024 -
But times change, previously indispensable tech tools get shoved to the back of a desk drawer and shiny touch-screen communication devices now make their hardware-heavy predecessors seem as primitive as wheezing dial-up modems.
— David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2023 -
It was negotiated before even dial-up Internet was invented.
— Robert E. Lighthizer, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2023
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