Do you remember the screeching of a dial-up modem as it ... turned a classic modem into a 3G Wi-Fi hotspot with the ubiquitous Raspberry Pi Zero. Sourcing an old USRobotics USB modem — allegedly ...

If you’re old enough to have used a dial-up modem we’d bet you can do an imitation of the sounds it made while connecting. Those not-so-beautiful sounds heralded the dawning of a ...

slower than your dusty old dial-up modem. In the study titled "The Unbearable Slowness of Being," researchers Zheng Jie Yu and Markus Meister posit that this "slowness" is actually purposeful.