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"dial up" Definitions
  1. to order something by phone, to be delivered immediately
  2. to increase the noise, heat, etc. produced by a piece of equipment by moving its controls
  3. (informal) to increase the amount, degree or power of a quality

509 Sentences With "dial up"

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As dial-up internet (yeah, yeah, I remember dial-up) disappeared and serious tech competitors like Apple arrived on the scene, Microsoft and millennials reached a disconnect.
But dial up some early footage of, say, Conan O'Brien.
Expect that to further dial up the pressure on adtech.
We started in '2803, so we were in dial-up days.
It's somehow so much worse than the dial-up internet noise.
I think he's turned his intensity dial up a little bit.
The dial-up information service had a consumer launch in 1979.
Will your children know what a dial-up modem sounded like?
The weather service expected the heat to dial up higher still.
All they needed to do was dial up the bulletin board.
Dial-up Internet Some of you who saw Captain Marvel never had to deal with ridiculously slow dial-up internet, and you didn't laugh when Carol was faced with it in the movie, and it shows.
I used a dial-up internet connection to debate issues on Prodigy.
They used a dial-up internet connection far longer than most people.
Turn the lights off, and dial up the brightness of your screen.
The internet seemed more than adequate in the days of dial-up.
Our home computer had recently been upgraded from dial-up to broadband.
But as his needs grew beyond dial-up, the companies didn't come.
So there's a legal imperative to dial up scrutiny of cloud contracts.
And AOL, whatever, you make money from dial-up or whatever. Right.
Consequently, Will and crew had to dial up many of my clues.
We're doing this in the middle of Siberia with this dial-up.
Once they got IDD, we entered the age of the dial-up modem.
Boys were watching a lot of porn, so … It was dial-up. Right.
Sure, it was over a dial-up modem, but it was still fabulous.
Even Playboy, mired in identity crisis since dial-up modems, is suddenly woke.
They need to dial up the pressure on lawmakers like we've never seen.
But turn that dial up and the system's design just can't handle things.
It's an external dial-up modem, and this particular model was hugely popular.
In the beginning, though, it was just me, myself, and my dial-up connection.
This translates to speeds slower even than dial-up speeds from 20 years ago.
They should also use those youthful groups to dial up the pace in transition.
That's been the strategy since Nixon, and Trump turned the dial up to 11.
This was the days of bulletin boards and dial-up modems and everything else.
It wants its AOL screenname, email address, AIM account and dial-up modem back. #ButHerEmails!
For those of a certain age, it's akin from moving from dial-up to DSL.
As a septuagenarian, my father's story was typical of long-time Aol dial-up subscribers.
You've Got Mail is not a frothy romantic comedy with added dial-up modem sounds.
Fax machines, Palm Pilots, and clunky desktop computers with dial-up Internet were cutting edge.
AOL sent CD-ROMs (like this) with its dial-up and email offerings through USPS.
Unlike past killers, Mr. Paddock did not dial up the police to explain his actions.
Lewis had first discovered the text when she was just 16, using dial-up internet.
Those were the dial-up days, so Seamless wasn't anywhere close to affecting our bottom line.
Welcome to Dial Up, Mashable’s most excellent look at tech in the ‘90s.
If they do, they could once again dial up profits by betting on an aging industry.
Who knows, perhaps one day dial-up modems and flip phones will make a comeback, too.
When we were in dial-up speed times, we could hardly imagine real live instantaneous things.
It lets you dial up to 96 CPUs and an other-worldly 624 GB of memory.
Choosing to sleep in a tent is like saying you still like using dial-up internet.
I dial up Ascension on my terminal, and send the afternoon crew the morning's log files.
"We've really seen that he has the ability to turn the dial up," Servais told reporters.
It would certainly dial up the temperature to ram tax reform through before Jones is seated.
Many of the rural areas surrounding it have dial up, satellite, or no internet at all.
If the wax isn't melting enough to absorb into the paper, dial up the iron's setting.
Take away the dial-up noise and AOL logo, and you could be watching Ariana Grande.
In that era of dial-up internet access, that's exactly what World Sports Exchange was doing.
Have you ever wanted to watch an Avenger use dial-up internet and listen to TLC's "Waterfalls"?
Back in the day, she was the first person in our county to get dial-up internet.
Or if it detects a landscape photo, it'll dial up the blue to make the sky pop.
My work is already quite dark and weird, so I enjoyed turning the dial up on that.
Many of those locales are currently stuck using sluggish dial-up, spotty satellite, or inconsistent 25G wireless.
In terms of speed and capabilities, the deep web is a throwback to the dial-up days.
One thing that distinguishes smart people is they know how to dial up the professionalism — without overcompensating.
What makes one listener swoon may grate on another like the sound of a dial-up modem.
You can dial up the level of noise cancellation with these controls or by using the app.
It made sense because people had poky dial-up connections at home and faster ones at work.
And if you really want to dial up the drama, go ahead and mattify your entire look.
Here, there's no need to dial up the shutter speed or ISO to compensate for hand shake.
He said it can do around seven transactions a second, which is slower than dial-up connection.
These AOL customers surely aren't shelling out for the "convenience" of their painfully slow dial-up service.
It was a tapestry of low-res images, comic sans, scrolling banners, and painfully slow dial-up connections.
We need to dial-up our speed and responsiveness to stay ahead of these developments and we will.
For example, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule has been in place since the days of dial-up.
In 1999, dial-up tones, busy signals, and duels between landline phones and Internet access were the norm.
Importantly, communities in Canada's far north might finally be relieved of dial-up modems and finicky satellite internet.
This list is so dense I can practically hear the dial-up connection struggling to process it all.
Basically, you can dial up or down the gravity so you can hit the ground with different amounts.
Household dial-up Internet connections, for those who are authorized to have it, was only 3.4% in 2014.
The sanctions against Al-Amin are the latest Treasury Department effort to dial up financial pressure on Iran.
As Democrats seek to dial up attention on Trump's behavior, Republicans are actively trying to redirect it elsewhere.
Can you remember the sound a dial-up modem used to make when it connected to the internet?
The pick suggests the next Commission is preparing to dial up its scrutiny of big tech's data monopolies.
These are the two most important metrics prepare ourselves to dial up the growth in the subsequent quarters.
At the time, that would be like going from dial-up to the fastest speeds we have today.
Internet scammers arrived with the dial-up modem years ago, conning people in chat rooms and email inboxes.
It was a recipe for obsolescence, one that befell many services that relied on dial-up terminal interfaces.
She learned how to use dial-up internet and started deconstructing computers by the time she was 9.
You had a computer at home, but you shared it with your siblings and it had dial-up internet.
Like most everything then, it was free to read for anyone in the US with a dial-up connection.
The progenitor of all digital marketplaces led the way, and its enabling technology was dial-up internet and email!
For instance, more than 2 million people were still paying for AOL's dial-up Internet connectivity service in 2015.
" Another said that with the many error messages they're getting, "I feel I'm back in 1996 with dial-up.
"We want to dial-up a bit on M&A," CEO Marco Nespolo told an investor presentation in London.
Facebook is constantly tweaking its algorithms to try to dial up our positive emotional states, otherwise known as happiness.
HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - SoftBank is turning to dividends to dial up the appeal for its Japanese mobile unit.
I definitely don't need to turn the dial up on my attention to what's going on with me physically.
Sometimes it was fine, but, increasingly, it was slowing to a sub-dial-up trickle of around 20 Kbps.
That, combined with some lenders willingness to dial up the risk to boost returns, could spell more trouble ahead.
Is that a dial-up modem ringing in your ears, or are you just looking at today's Google Doodle?
The scheme Neu is charged with running predates the days of dial up and usually follows the same narrative.
Removing distractions while you complete a task or activity is one way to dial up the intensity, Wallman says.
When he's "on fire" (his term), he grows irritable with the slow dial-up connection of other people's brains.
Her comments Saturday are likely to embolden critics -- and dial up the scrutiny -- of social media companies, particularly Facebook.
He preferred to dial up the variability and wobble that distinguish a groove as human, intriguing in its imperfection.
Visitors to the studio, which looks like an old-fashioned telephone booth, can dial up stories recorded by locals.
Whatever his motivation was, he felt like he should dial up some reporters and get his take out there.
I turned the volume dial up and, hearing one verse, motioned to Doug to pay attention—this was important.
For the most part, it's been very organic, but our roadmap is to dial up that marketing piece, as well.
I could do without the dial-up internet, but go ahead and take me back to the '90s, Captain Marvel.
That's because unlike dial-up, floppy disks, or department stores, greeting cards have managed to prevail in the digital age.
Many of these consumers are stranded in the dial-up age, while others rely on spotty satellite or cell service.
Screenshot: Patrick Tucker (Youtube)Imagine a ball of light with the voice of the world's most violent dial-up connection.
While Wilson was starring in Matilda, you were probably listening to the static-y hum of a dial-up connection.
Today wage suppression in Silicon Valley is even more of a distant memory than dial-up internet and mainframe computers.
Stormfront began in 1990s as a dial-up BBS and then morphed into a website and forum in about 1995.
He'd designed the game for dial-up internet and thought the advent of broadband would be the end of Utopia.
As for being motivated by Girardi's comments that he needed to dial up his performance on Tuesday, Tanaka was puzzled.
Then I got a 33.6 dial-up connection, and I was building websites for strangers on the internet for free.
In some parts of the country, you could log onto America Online through a dial-up modem, sign into Kozmo.
Working in a humid hostel with dial-up internet speeds, worrying about deadlines and that meeting scheduled for 4 a.m.
"The president is expected to dial up efforts in this regard during and after the August recess," the source added.
It's only fitting that the same thinking should apply when you're feeling crummy: Just dial up the doc and chill.
Internet users were leaving AOL and its dial-up service in droves, and adopting the much faster access speeds of broadband.
"My goal was to upload a video on my dial-up computer and be funnier than Chris Crocker," he told Fader.
The dial-up business launched in 1994 and was one of the first mainstream Internet providers, along with AOL and CompuServe.
Like other LoRa devices, the chips are slow, transmitting data at about the speed of an old-fashioned dial-up modem.
"The insect industry is in the dial-up era right now and we want to achieve the smartphone era," says Whitaker.
You'll never forget the early days of the internet: The bad graphics, the slow speeds, and that trademark dial-up sound.
She said that during the campaign, she met people in central Pennsylvania that told her they only had dial-up service.
" BRENDAN AHERN, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER AT KRANE FUNDS ADVISORS LLC IN NEW YORK     "It's going to be this incremental dial-up.
A few other smaller ISPs offer "high speed dial up" and DSL services, which are more the norm in rural areas.
At the Cult of the Dead Cow, in the days of dial-up, did he learn to steal long-distance service?
"Once you add this new stadium, and the seen-and-be-seen factor, it will dial up the brand," he said.
"Fiscal year 2019 was not a year where we wanted to dial up the growth," Robbiati said on Tuesday's conference call.
Consumers, meanwhile, were sending emails from home to the squealing and squawking sounds of the latest 56 Kbps dial-up modems.
Internet speed was at a near standstill and brought me back to the days of AOL and a dial-up connection.
She was known to dial up its reporters when she had an opinion none of the President's apparatchiks wanted to hear.
He said Trump has been able to "really dial up," or down, the rhetoric when it comes to China and Iran.
It's also possible such bills could be part of an effort to dial up his accountability bona fides ahead of 2020.
Another case in point: AOL's 2.1 million users who still pay $20 a month for their outdated AOL dial-up service.
The shirt is made by Altru Apparel, a company which has a commercial that reminds people of AOL's dial up internet system.
If Disastrous Donald is the right frame of reference, he will dial up the aggressive rhetoric to deflect attention from these troubles.
The advent of high-speed broadband in the home means that dial-up connections are, for most people, now a nostalgic memory.
Today, Facebook announced a group-calling feature for its Messenger app, letting you dial up to 50 friends concurrently over the internet.
Some stars dial up the glam factor by pairing the look with falsies (Hannah Jeter) or wearing sparkle-dusted shades (Thandie Newton).
Players have already spoken out against the league, but with the MVP firing shots, expect the heat to dial up even more.
Just 22019 million American adults had access to the Internet back then, through dial-up services like America Online, CompuServe or Prodigy.
You can dial up more resources when you require it, and if you don't need them anymore, you can dial back down.
VICE recently caught up with the photographer, who spent some time reminiscing about life in New York during the dial-up era.
This early internet giant became ubiquitous for sending free CDs in the mail to get consumers to download its dial-up service.
Age of Reckoning's code still included a line related to how the previous MMO, Dark Age of Camelot, handled dial-up players.
Or is it all three, along with anyone who "grew up internet" and learned about adult life through a dial-up modem?
As dial-up 56k modems gave way to D.S.L. and cable connections, AIM asserted itself as the dominant service of the time.
As I keep talking, he turns the dial up, then up and up some more until, yes, there, he can hear me.
The internet was in its infancy, with only about 600 websites available to the few people who actually had dial-up service.
Humid and broad of palette, it has the rare ability to dial up the complexity and the sensitivity at the same time.
It was astounding and unanticipated that Bodgy, who is averaging 10.5 ppg this season, was able to dial up his jersey number.
Today, many ICS are hyper-connected using both legacy and modern technology, including dial-up, Bluetooth, physical serial connections, and more, he said.
It doesn't offer email, an internet connection, or even the AOL dial-up noise that causes my left eye to twitch with anticipation.
That eventually gives way to the dial-up funk and hopscotching rhythms of "bqbqbq," which itself then stretches out for nearly 12 minutes.
After exhausting my knowledge of dial-up internet forums and search engines, I finally found my man: it was Serbian forward Danijel Ljuboja.
Before you dial up 1-800-FLOWERS or run to CVS for a box of possibly stale chocolates, consider taking the beauty route.
National and international commercial dial-up services, including America Online, Genie, Prodigy, and CompuServe did not connect with the noncommercial internet until 20013.
In the sweet early days of dial-up, during which I was in Year 5, I was allowed an hour online after school.
You could loudly talk about dial-up internet, roller skates with four wheels, or that bitchin' Billy Ocean cassingle you used to have.
Back then, folks didn't have cell phones, internet access required a dial-up connection, and movies had to be rented in VHS format.
Dial up the efforts to be transparent about when we get things wrong or when we change things, why have we done that.
One night, Vogel turned the dial up too high, altitude-wise, on her sleeping chamber and ended up at about 50% oxygen saturation.
In the late 1990s, a lonely teenager on the West Coast fired up his dial-up modem to find someone to talk to.
These doors were typically used for an "entry page" that bedroom programmers thought would be charming in the years of dial-up internet.
Democrats remain hopeful that the revelations will dial up pressure on Senate Republicans weighing whether to seek witnesses and documents in the trial.
Ms. Antaramian and Alok Tewari (as Umm's husband, Abu) have a steadying presence, but the younger cast members distractingly dial up their acting.
It was a combination of Netscape and AOL, we had the dial-up service and we sold a box in retail to consumers.
You could get to content online, you could dial up to a service like AOL, and there was all this content on there.
I couldn't really identify who was playing, but I felt like I was living in a telephone that was connected to dial-up internet.
At the time America Online (AOL) had 28 million dial-up internet subscribers and was the leader in providing internet access to American households.
But social networking got its start 38 years ago today, when the first public, dial-up Computerized Bulletin Board System went online in Chicago.
Even as banks dial up the heat on smaller competitors through their advantages of scale, they haven't backed away from investing in start-ups.
In their letters, they called for "sensible reform" of the notice-and-takedown provision, which was signed into law in the dial-up era.
Hosting a website meant anyone with a modem could dial-up and stop by — and anyone with a server could set up a website.
In 1989, the first internet service provider, The World, offered dial up to the public for the first time, and things really opened up.
I think one of the areas we're trying to press on is, you know, we need to dial up our pace and our speed.
At the time, Manfred said, he had only a dial-up connection, and was routinely killed in fights by players with better broadband speeds.
The web, and dial-up BBSes and Usenet before it, incubated and distributed knowledge and commentary; later, blogging platforms democratized the power of publication.
Hardcore spinners can even dial up the resistance to make pedaling harder, but may want to think carefully about the length of their commute.
Trying to get any work done on the super slow Wi-Fi feels like you've teleported back in time to the dial-up era.
There was the robot hand that swipes your phone for you, Google Fiber's new dial-up mode, and some Pokemon thing on Google Maps.
In those days of dial-up internet connections, going online involved long local phone calls that could cost more than $03 apiece in France.
Dial-up computer bulletin boards were popular, although many courts had held that their operators were publishers and responsible for the content they displayed.
Trump and his aides have sought to dial up pressure on China to strike a deal as they shield U.S. consumers from higher costs.
With 2020 behind him and no longer facing the political constraint of another election, Trump can dial up the heat on China even more.
It allowed my sister and I to understand porn for what it really is, rather than stumbling into the unknown via dial-up connection.
Sure, the days of waiting minutes to load a single webpage are as distant a memory as the screech of a dial-up modem.
What passed today isn't a result of liberals turning the financial reform dial up to 11 and conservatives want to turn the dial down.
And Russian operatives won't need to talk to Julian Assange or English spies to get this material; they'll just need a dial-up modem.
Nostalgic websites meant to mimic the days of dial-up modems are cropping up in artsy and tech-geek corners of the web. Windows43.
People of a certain age remember that America Online distributed free CDs in the mail to entice consumers to download its dial-up service.
Ezinet, a local satellite internet provider with speeds comparable to dial-up, has been able to offer some connectivity, but not enough for all.
Pristine protection let Reich dial up several longer developing routes, like Hilton's 22-yard gain — from an empty formation — to set up the first touchdown.
Unlike sending image files that were agonizingly slow to download using the day's dial-up connections, ASCII art loaded as quickly as any other text.
Schaller says social susceptibility may be one of the strongest forces in encouraging new residents to dial up some personality traits while toning down others.
This is not hard to understand: does offering DNS and caching turn your Comcast connection into an "information service" like dial-up AOL in 1998?
The first words I remember posting on the internet were on a self-made site uploaded to my local dial-up ISP's web hosting service.
We got really lucky because in 2000 — we forget it's only 16 years ago — 97 percent of America was on dial-up internet with AOL.
Philip Breedlove said Russia had the power to "dial up and down" the conflict as it wished to put pressure on the government in Kiev.
The gay-friendliness of your hometown didn't matter; all that mattered was that you had a stable dial-up connection and access to a keyboard.
It's not a problem with uncompressed video, but trying to stream files of that size would feel like going back to the dial-up days.
So I patted the pork chops dry, cranked the dial up to sear, and waited for the plates to reach a toasty 450 degrees Fahrenheit.
If you're Wi-Fi feels more like your old dial-up connection, then these tips and tricks for a faster internet connection are for you.
I turn off the dial-up to call Sara to ask her for her email, and then I turn it back on and email her.
When you're Bentley and you don't sell a single car for under six digits, you need to dial up the luxury a notch or two.
Our thought bubble: That made some sense in the era where not everyone had a PC at home and many were on dial-up connections.
For parents who grew up with dial-up connections and tape players, the high-speed, digital social lives of their teens can be a mystery.
I used to desperately try free dial-up services at the weekend, and play Grand Theft Auto PC multiplayer by dialing my friends phone number.
Not too long ago, it took a dial-up modem and an argument with whomever was using the phone line to connect to the Internet.
Visually, the disembodied limb evokes memories of the dial-up internet age and how long it took for images or other data to download completely.
So, the jump to exascale would be like going from a flip phone to the latest smartphone or from dial-up to 4G internet speed.
Then dial up the flour you use to coat the chicken, adding both chile powder and red pepper flakes, along with a shake of paprika.
"I've gotten mail from people that say, 'Oh, I'm here on my old dial-up connection, and your page loads really fast,'" De Decker said.
All of this was made possible by now-defunct FTP webcam technology uploading one grainy image every three minutes, using a dial-up internet modem.
Jungler Jankos in particular turned the dial up to 11, scoring all three first bloods are making big plays in the clean sweep of Fnatic.
In the 1980s, the French began connecting themselves to the Minitel, a console like a black-and-white TV connected to dial-up phone lines.
In the days of dial-up modems Americans, who were charged a flat rate for local calls, paid far less than Europeans to get online.
Free-Nets were stuck on pokey dial-up modems at a time when faster options like cable internet or DSL were starting to gain steam.
When I was a kid, my friend and I used to play Command & Conquer: Red Alert together almost every other night over a dial-up connection.
I logged onto chat forums and Myspace from a clunky old PC with a dial-up connection that lived in a room of my parents' house.
He was sure he didn't need the dial-up component, but he didn't want to risk losing access to his stock portfolio, investor forums, and email.
"We decided to take a step back and explore how we could dial up the maturity in LawBreakers, going back to our original vision," Bleszinski says.
The more noteworthy objectives include replacing the current dial-up systems with broadband Internet connection and connecting 50% of households with this broadband Internet by 2020.
In an internet dial-up era, social media had yet to frame expectations when some of us were still marking "doomsday" over a newscaster's say so.
While populous areas have all of the internet infrastructure you'd expect in a modern country, many areas in Canada still have dial-up connections or worse.
One day, when you put in your first pair of AR contact lenses and immediately dial up a horse video to superimpose over everything, you'll understand.
Monopoly The Dot Com Edition, $33.39, available at AmazonRevel in the nostalgia of the dot com era (or shudder with flashbacks of dial-up modem sounds). 
Sadly, all three of them play Russians, the result being that, when called upon to converse, they have to turn the Slavic dial up to eleven.
His book, Virtual Addiction, rang an early warning bell when it came out in 1999, when the internet was still being accessed only through dial-up.
It's a little-known program that got its start in the dial-up era thanks to the foresight of Congress in the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Roughly 18% of schoolchildren in remote rural areas either had no home internet access or dial-up connections only, according to a 2018 Education Department report.
Being self-employed means they also have the flexibility in their schedules to dial up or down as needed; they can work on their own terms.
Earlier this year, the Crowne Plaza Atlanta-Airport tested adjustable lighting in the rooms to allow guests to dial up alertness or dim to resting mode.
His book, Virtual Addiction, rang an early warning bell when it came out in 2500, when the internet was still being accessed only through dial-up.
Analysts have warned that Amazon's decision to accelerate delivery speeds just months before the busiest time of the year would dial up pressure on the company.
Analysts have warned that Amazon's decision to accelerate delivery speeds just months before the busiest time of the year would dial up pressure on the company.
Tighter sanctions plus a more assertive approach at sea could dial up tensions at a time when fragile diplomacy between North and South Korea has gained momentum.
Democrats need to dial up their efforts on voter outreach if they want to channel this sentiment into actual support at the polls in November, experts say.
If you go two miles outside of town and beyond, you will find large quantities of households that are lucky to get a dial-up Internet service.
"Back when it was a dial-up connection, someone could appear online that was actually disconnected because the disconnect wouldn't register for a while," Auerbach told me.
EarthLink has two parts to its business: a declining dial-up Internet service for consumers, and an Internet and data provider to small- and medium-sized businesses.
Instead of a 50 Mbps connection, the fire department was left trying to battle a raging fire with the equivalent of a dial-up modem (30 kbps).
Finally, while most of Australia's 12.9 million Internet subscribers are getting online via broadband, shout out to the 93,000 people who still have a dial-up connection.
And rates of violent crime throughout the country have plummeted since Nixon's day, though that doesn't mean Trump won't try to dial up fear among white Americans.
And yet, slowly but surely it finds its footing—much like Freaks and Geeks—becoming much more than a litany of references to Oasis and dial-up.
As I found out, that's like saying computers weigh 50 pounds and take 15 minutes to dial-up — the old ones did, sure, but the times changed.
Services like (IBM's/Sear's) Prodigy, France Telecom's Minitel, America Online, CompuServe, as well as numerous computer bulletin boards and other dial-up services provided consumer computer services.
Technology has evolved quickly, from dial-up internet in the mid-1990s to the iPhone in 2007 to the convergence of mobile computing and 21625G networks today.
When firefighters called Verizon to complain that their connections had been throttled to dial-up speeds, the company tried to upsell them to a more expensive plan.
We increasingly have easy solutions at our fingertips: Dial-up modems have given way to broadband; stores are being replaced by Amazon drones; courtship is now Tinder.
He'd managed to get into the building without having to dial up, and when I heard a knock at my door I instinctively thought it was him.
It seems I had last used it to report from the World Cup in France in the summer of '98, using then-sporadic French dial-up internet.
But rather than drawing pictures, as was done in Japanese yaoi culture, they wrote stories so they could easily be uploaded and shared using dial-up internet.
Legend, 40, took a moment to respond to the song's critics before hitting the stage as part of Sirius XM's Dial Up the Moment campaign on Tuesday.
Internet speeds have risen, with Americans making the switch from dial-up to broadband, which in turn has disrupted the old order in other industries, like broadcasting.
They had to purchase digital cameras and video recorders, wait on slow dial-up connections to upload content and find designated chat rooms with like-minded individuals.
At a time when the web was still coming of age (dial-up was the connection du jour), he launched All Songs Considered and hosted the program.
"It would be great to dial up specific frequencies of light that can allows us to drive around at night, but which don't promote budburst," said ffrench-Constant.
This isn't a departure from risk and return, but simply a way to dial up risk in a way that is appropriate for me as a young investor.
That was a problem since for many people "going online" often meant stationing oneself at a desktop computer, connecting via dial-up, and tying up the phone line.
It's a process akin to starting with a crude picture and seeing if you can gradually dial up the resolution to get a perfect image of something real.
"Now, more than ever, it is clear that Congress needs to act to fix a law enacted in the days of dial-up Internet connections," the group said.
It enables you to dial up as much compute power as you need, only pay for what you use and shut it off when you're done using it.
Through that time, he also helped an ailing, ageing dial-up internet has-been reposition itself as a media company complete with an ad-tech engine underneath it.
Dial-Up Modem SoundIt's almost incredible that there's residual fondness for this godawful sound now that we have computers in our pockets with blazing fast, always online connections.
The plan is to dial up sales and customer acquisition by building out the commercial team and putting its energy into front office ops for the coming year.
Lisa Murkowski, chair of the Senate Energy Committee, said both votes would dial up the rhetoric over climate change, but neither will advance a serious discussion on solutions.
On Air Force One, administration officials sent emails over an air-to-ground Internet connection that was often no better than dial-up modems from the mid-1990s.
Hoping to further dial up pressure on Iran, Trump on Monday announced he will not renew sanctions waivers that allowed eight foreign governments to continue buying Iranian oil.
Way before Wi-Fi and long before the beeps and blips of the dial-up we knew in the nineties, the original gangster on the scene was CompuServe.
For months, analysts have warned that Amazon's decision to accelerate delivery speeds just months before the busiest time of the year would dial up pressure on the company.
You have instant communication, on-demand entertainment, and dial-up transportation—why should you have to wait nine months to see what kind of baby you're going to have?
It's poorly designed, too: If you're not holding the Dial up against the screen, it has a tendency to slide off if the Canvas is raised at an angle.
John Campbell, suggested the U.S. may have to leave a larger presence to train and assist Afghan forces, as well as dial up pressure on the Taliban with airstrikes.
In that time many battled with slow dial-up internet connections and banner ads, so the idea of someone putting their credit card information on a website was crazy.
Today, that's more evident than ever—think of the sounds of a dial-up modem or a Nokia ringtone, which have become retrospectively iconic but are now rarely heard.
I have a vague recollection of running a lengthy dial-up phone line from my wall phone jack to the TiVo so it could download its regular programming update.
Set top boxes back then were awful – you had to use dial-up to get TV-guide-like program listings and recording was limited if it existed at all.
But dial up the knob to turbo mode, and the healthy growl of the 3.5-liter V-6 engine reminds you that this is still a serious sports car.
Additionally, less than one-fifth of U.S. households in 1996 were connected to the internet, all of them via dial-up modems with a maximum speed of 33.6 Kbps.
Top U.S. policymakers appear convinced they have achieved "escalation dominance", allowing them to dial-up and dial-down pressure on Iran at will and precisely without too much risk.
But by lowering the stakes about as far as they can go, "Dating Around" has managed to dial up the excitement and possibility of the dreaded first-date experience.
Shazam's technology was introduced in 2002 as a dial-up service that would listen to a song for 30 seconds and send its user a text message identifying it.
He wouldn't mind if we returned to the days of the dial-up modem, when we waited patiently for the pixels to materialize on the screen one by one.
It further is expected to dial up its own information campaign against Iran in the coming days, including a potential speech on Iran by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Dial-up connections have become a relic of the past with users now accustomed to high-speed downloads, super-fast browsing, high-resolution streaming and a great deal more.
If your early days on the internet involved dial-up modems, slow-loading pages, and low-res graphics, then you'll get a kick out of a new app called BitCam.
It opens on an AOL dial-up tone, following Anna and Maya's first foray into chatrooms, and ends with Maya catfishing and falling in love with her AIM boyfriend FlyMiamiBro22.
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CONTROL Top U.S. policymakers appear convinced they have achieved escalation dominance, allowing them to dial-up and dial-down pressure on Iran at will and precisely without too much risk.
"TDTL" is one of those tracks where he dives in headfirst, and it culminates in the most intense, burst of super-speed rap this side of a dial-up connection.
To be clear, we're not knocking the power of the high-energy, Blogilates-type workout vid — those can be extremely motivational for someone who wants to dial up to 11.
Separately, two U.S. senators sought to dial up pressure on North Korea by reintroducing a bill on Tuesday to impose sanctions on any bank that does business with its government.
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SMALL MARGIN FOR ERROR Analysts have warned that Amazon's decision to accelerate delivery speeds just months before the busiest time of the year would dial up pressure on the company.
"IBM is trying to shed its status as a dial-up-era dinosaur" by infringing the rights of "current" technology companies such as Groupon, according to Groupon spokesman Bill Roberts.
Every five minutes, a computer system directs plants to dial up or scale down production to ensure enough electricity is available to keep the lights on without overloading transmission wires.
These networks, designed for an era of tinny dial-up modems and intended to bring the benefits of networked computing outside of academia, were built with local communities in mind.
Youtube wasn't even a thing until I was in my teens (and my family still has dial-up internet), so it's not like I could've found them, but the sentiment stands.
"We put [that data] into the system, and it is acting as a boost or a suppression, and we're going to dial up the intensity of that over time," he said.
Marvel's films have always had a flair for comedy, but Infinity War turns the dial up further, maximizing the levity found in movies like Thor: Ragnarok and Guardians of the Galaxy.
It's a short read, and well worth it if you'd like a bit more insight into the challenges behind acquiring groundbreaking scientific information over the Solar System's worst dial-up connection.
With all the headlines about the lack of broadband in rural America, you'd be forgiven for thinking that all small towns are stuck in the dark age of dial-up internet.
When most people were still logging onto the World Wide Web through modems, waiting for the interminable dial-up connection, a group of London artists were creating their own communication network.
But what we do know, today, is that the Trump administration is attempting to dial up the national security and foreign policy approaches of the last administration — largely through military power.
The CTBTO provides the shared understanding of each nuclear test that makes it easier for members of the U.N. Security Council to dial up the pressure against North Korea through sanctions.
The Beatles weren't the first to make women scream and faint — dial up footage of Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley at his peak — but the pace and scale astonish even today.
For years, such communities have largely been left out of the digital revolution because they had only intermittent internet access, often through a patchwork of satellite, dial-up or wireless service.
But when it's USA Hockey operating on a dial-up modem, the only way forward is take it out behind the ACC on Tuesday night and shoot it like Old Yeller.
The Iranian strategy now is both to express a willingness to meet under certain circumstances and to dial up military tensions to strength their hand in negotiations, according to the Times.
" Progyny Inc: "Well I've got do my little homework on that big boy because I do not know it well enough ... I remember when Progyny was like a dial-up company.
For the desiccated water bears in the tun state, you could dial up the heat to an impressive 180.86 degrees F for an hour, and about half of them would survive.
For that you can thank your fellow US taxpayers and the $3 billion they pumped into the Human Genome Project during the decade best known for dial-up and Drew Barrymore.
"PEN15" is set in the year 2000, around the time Erskine and Konkle entered middle school, and its girls access the heady adult world through dial-up AOL and Ask Jeeves.
While this means that the legislation is effectively dead in the water, these bills also dial up the pressure on Republicans as the partial government shutdown nears the two-week mark.
But the slow — and expensive — process of logging on through dial-up modems held back the newfound past-time as a novel hobby rather a day to day activity for the majority.
Users get one Heart Point for every Move minute and two points if you dial up the activity if your heart rate is 70 percent or higher than your normal heart rate.
In order to keep the concealer from migrating, the makeup artist set it with a pearlized beige-white shadow, which he swept on with a wet brush to dial up the intensity.
The world was already setting more and more warm temperature records without the El Niño's assistance, but what El Niño has done is dial up the already elevated temperatures to damaging levels.
Despite its members being mostly not being old enough to fully remember the days of both dial-up internet and landline phones, Pro Era have nonetheless decided to tackle this ancient technology.
A Trump IT director also said the company relied on personal email accounts using dial-up Internet services until 2001 despite Trump's launch of a high-speed Internet provider three years earlier.
The outbound flow of metal would also question the wisdom of the world's top mining companies to dial up copper production on the assumption of strong long-term demand out of China.
The ongoing suit, a favorite of TechDirt, was largely found in favor of AOL, though the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals didn't fully clear the dial-up icon, leading to the settlement.
We also carried phone cords and adaptors, so in the rare city where we could dial up through the fledgling Russian internet service Glasnet, we could connect our laptops to phone jacks.
The increasing number of AAPI voters in the state has required campaigns to dial up outreach that's historically been lacking, particularly as candidates seek new sources of support during a competitive primary.
The TV special is already prone to people all shouting over each other — and from what we can expect thus far, this one likely going to turn the dial up to 11.
"I believe that Russia will dial up and down the pressure along the line of contact to keep Kiev under pressure to meet their parts of the (Minsk) agreements first," he said.
Back in the dial-up days of the neolithic internet, staring at choppy, blurry webcam footage of people living their average, boring lives was an exciting and transgressive facet of online life.
But this time, it isn't the San Bernardino shooting case, It's an iPhone 5C that belongs to a meth dealer, and the DEA wants to dial up his customers and fellow drug peddlers.
Nearly two-and-a-half decades old, the former got to the milestone first at a time when downloading a song on the Internet required a saint's patience and a dial-up modem.
We need to actually do better about showing our work ... Dial up the efforts to be transparent about when we get things wrong or when we change things, why have we done that.
Using our dial-up internet, I went online and found out she was going to be playing in Boston, so I asked my parents and we went to see her as a family.
"Sixty percent of Detroit is without high-speed internet, some without even dial-up internet," Nyasia Valdez, digital stewed trainer with the Equitable Internet Initiative told me when I visited Detroit last fall.
They were also darlings on MTV's TRL, which was basically the closest thing we had to social media in the year 2000 when 99 percent of the planet was still on dial-up.
"This valuable mid-band spectrum is largely lying fallow, and it has been so for two decades now — just as the internet has gone from dial-up modems to gigabit Wi-Fi," Pai said.
This article was originally published on Noisey UK. In 22009, the Despair Faction, a new AFI official message board and fan club, started attracting awkward teens with access to a reliable dial-up connection.
"We put [that data] into the system, and it is acting as a boost or a suppression, and we're going to dial up the intensity of that over time," he said, according to BuzzFeed.
It was only then — with help from slow shutter speeds and photo editing to dial up the color saturation — that the aurora enthusiasts could show Steve in all its pink, purple and green glory.
The compromise bill comes as lawmakers and regulators have been fielding an escalating wave of complaints about robocalls, spam calls that dial up U.S. consumers often with the intention of stealing their personal information.
The bulletin board system, or BBS—the often homespun dial-up systems, popular in the 21986s and 19873s, that were built around text-based terminal interfaces—in many cases, played an able stand-in.
As I sit staring at my screen and drumming my fingers, I get flashbacks to computing via dial-up in the '90s, when I used to read a book while waiting for websites to open.
The 5G Mod for the Moto Z3 will be available in early 2019, exclusively on Verizon's network Motorola reckons you could get insane speeds that will make today's 4G LTE feel like dial-up internet.
It's no Hogwarts letter, but bringing Potter to the immersive world of VR is a huge technological step for a franchise that has been around since Internet was dial-up and DVDs were a luxury.
But, for those looking to travel back in time, this show's soundtrack's got it all: Des'ree, the classic Pizza Bagels jingle, and that buzz of the dial-up modem letting you know you have mail.
I didn't have to share it with my brother; I didn't have to use the treacle-slow dial-up internet to print of sheaves of badly-written game guides to figure out how to play.
For scientists talking to submarines, robots, and other instruments, data travels at dial-up speeds of single bytes per minute—far slower than the megabits per second we use in the office or at home.
Incremental progress Some Cubans use dial-up connections or mobile plans to access state-run web services, but broadband access has been largely restricted to diplomats or employees of foreign companies, and prices remain prohibitive.
Even after things were fully mirrored, he still felt trepidation when the time came to pick up the phone and terminate his dial-up account (despite Aol's best attempt to obscure and complicate the procedure).
Brand: AOLYear introduced: 1997The little yellow man who appeared anytime you opened your AIM account, or while you were waiting for your dial-up to connect, was ubiquitous in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Secondly, they are using this issue to raise concerns about the legitimacy of the trial and Republicans' handling of it, in an effort to shape public opinion and dial up the pressure on battleground Senators.
Back in January, Kelly did a Reddit AMA interview from the space station — he gets internet, though he said it's "like dial-up" — and shared some of the more unusual aspects of living in space.
" Friendly reminder that you can use a HAM radio to chat with astronauts in space if you so desire, so feel free to dial up Auñón-Chancellor and chat politics, or just say "wuz up.
Still using atrociously slow dial-up at the time—though to be fair, upgrading from 14.4k to 28.8k was a big deal—I'd quietly hope my parents wouldn't pick up the phone, cutting my AOL connection.
The classmate was Steve Case, nearly two decades Kimsey's junior, and he was the brains who helped iterate the company into a formidable dial-up Internet service that briefly had a market value of $20163 billion.
You won't have to fire up your dial-up connection, but you will want to look out for pop ups of that old lady Brie Larson's Carol Danvers punched in the face in the first trailer.
From the earliest days of the "net", meaning going back to the original online newsgroups and subsequently dial-up, the presence of trolling has been a constant and unrelenting force of ill-will and bad taste.
"Its way of countering the maximum-pressure campaign has been twofold: dial down compliance with the nuclear deal and dial up pressure on the regional front," says Ariane Tabatabai of the RAND Corporation, a think-tank.
During the Dot-com boom, he co-founded the Distributed Real Time Groove Network, a way for musicians from across the globe to jam on an online MIDI sequencer over their then-standard dial-up modems.
Although the Fed is widely expected to keep rates unchanged at this month's meeting, policy makers have already begun to telegraph they are prepared to dial up rates even further to keep the economy from overheating.
The state of play ... Engineers can dial up the complexity in a variety of ways: They can control cars reversing out of parking spots, traveling the wrong way down a lane or cutting across empty spaces.
Outside big cities, the situation is dire: The Wall Street Journal just ran a lengthy, excellent piece about the many rural Americans who still only have dial-up internet access, locking them out of the modern economy.
AltaVista (1995)If you grew up alongside the internet, chances are the words "Alta-Vista" are still rattling around in some dusty corner of your brain alongside Netscape Navigator and that sound a dial-up modem makes.
The focus on Chao and McConnell's relationship also comes as Democrats dial up their attention on political corruption, a cornerstone of their landmark HR 1 bill, which would give the Office of Government Ethics more enforcement capabilities.
John Campbell, suggested as he was leaving the post that the United States may have to leave a larger presence to train and assist Afghan forces, as well as dial up pressure on the Taliban with airstrikes.
As a companion piece chronicles, however, navigating web and gaming portals was every bit as miserable as dealing with modern video game DRM and service updates — and you had to do it over a dial-up modem.
And to get a bit crazy: If you've got Google Home set up to recognize different voices, your wife/husband/kids can say, "OK Google, call my mom" — and it should dial up the respectively correct mom.
While it's still easy to find Birkenstocks, or products claiming to be made by the company, on the site, the complaints led Amazon to dial up efforts to remove fakes, according to the former Amazon retail executive.
Li put in a typical slow-burning performance, and began to dial up the pressure through the rounds but surprised everyone when he hit his man with a sidekick to the gut for a body shot knockout.
But harder because you were lugging around a bulky or primitive laptop (try sending a story on couplers via dial-up) and because, at least when I started, you were dependent on finding a working pay phone.
The move looks intended to dial up focus on the Office giant, in response to Microsoft's ongoing push to shift users from single purchase versions of flagship productivity products to subscription-based cloud versions, like Office 365.
Francisco dabbled in antiquities, and when Pinto was seven his father bought an Intel Pentium desktop computer with a dial-up Internet connection and installed it in the living room, to buy and sell ancient coins online.
There was a time when AOL, the leading service provider in the dial-up era, was expected to own the future of the Internet, just as Blockbuster was expected to dominate video rentals for years to come.
At first, the investigators left each piece of malware in place, electing only to throttle its ability to send outbound traffic; if the attackers tried to download any data, they would find themselves confined to dial-up speeds.
From media outlets to daytime TV shows, people love to examine the passé things these darn kids today "don't understand": broken records, typewriters, landlines and telephone booths, the dial-up sound on the first modems, and so forth.
While breakthroughs in computing technology—the PC clone, the dial-up gaming community, anti-virus utility—ostensibly keep the narrative moving, it is the camaraderie and the betrayal of characters that makes "Halt and Catch Fire" heady viewing.
Ever since I can remember, I loved anything that had to do with a computer — whether it'd be designing, teaching myself whatever my heart desired from the handy dial-up AOL search or just simply talking to friends.
And so by understanding the complicated nature of that word ambition, we get to, as I say, dial up the positive aspect of it and release a little bit from the less healthy more negative aspects of it.
But I was lucky to attend more than a couple LAN parties a year, if that, and on the clunky dial-up internet available in my area until the mid-2000s, online play was frequently tedious and frustrating.
Astronomers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, in Perth in Western Australia, have produced what they call the Gleamoscope to dial up visions of the night sky over Australia in whatever kind of light you prefer.
Dial up alternate sources of income In one week, Jude Maines, an on-site meeting coordinator based in Atlanta, has lost six jobs and more than $33,000 in pay and he's fearful more cancellations are on the way.
If you can get a bigger data plan for the same amount of money you are currently paying (while eschewing expensive features you don't use), you won't have to ration your internet usage like it's 1993 dial-up.
Telecommuting has been feasible since the days of dial-up, but the early digital nomads were pioneers, planning solo trips around the world, seeking out spare rooms and spotty connections in the name of escaping drudgery back home.
In fact, this scenario is not some dystopian, Black Mirror premise: it is the present reality in Cuba, where home dial-up and broadband connections are illegal and public access remains limited for the majority of the population.
Warren's proposal is in large part a pressure campaign aimed at getting other campaigns and social media companies to dial up their efforts to curb disinformation — while also offering a glimpse at her legislative agenda on the issue.
Shortly afterwards the WSJ obtained a private risk assessment by EU governments — which appears to dial up regional concerns over Huawei, focusing on threats linked to 5G providers in countries with "no democratic and legal restrictions in place".
Bethenny Frankel brought new meaning to the term "called out" on Wednesday's The Real Housewives of New York City, when she decided to dial up LuAnn de Lesseps' fiancé Tom D'Agostino, Jr. and confront him over his alleged infidelity.
Putin has spoken previously of his hope that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump may help restore tattered U.S.-Russia relations, and analysts said he was unlikely to want to dial up anti-Western rhetoric before Trump's inauguration in January.
If you don't need that much power (what is wrong with you?) or you want to mix and match, depending on what you're running, Google lets you dial up custom CPU and memory configurations to suit your workload requirements.
"This kind of deliberately provoking trade disputes is naked economic terrorism, economic chauvinism, economic bullying," China's Vice Foreign Minster Zhang Hanhui said, as Beijing continued to dial up its rhetoric amid the festering trade war with the United States.
The unwieldy structure of "Paranoid Android" suggested multiple creative impulses fighting each other within the same song: a Cumbia-like guitar melody in the verses, Gregorian chant breakdown, and guitar solos that screech like a dial-up internet connection.
If the memories from your hormonally charged teenage years are anything like ours, they involve velour track suits, dial-up internet, and hours spent on AIM chatting to the same friends you'd just spent the day with at school.
He recalls once chatting idly with the wife of the Human Cannonball when she dropped into the conversation that her husband was going to dial up the act by lighting himself on fire before being fired from the cannon.
On Sunday mornings in the 1980s, as we would drive to Vermont, it was not unusual for her to dial up Art Raymond and "Sunday Simcha" on WEVD, even though I begged to hear Jonathan Schwartz on WNEW-AM.
North Korea said Thursday it has carried out its first underwater-launched ballistic missile test in three years, in an apparent bid to dial up pressure on the United States ahead of a weekend resumption of their nuclear diplomacy.
They can be search ads, or those like Kiip's that offer a reward, or Google's local inventory ads that reveal what is in stock in a nearby store, or click-to-call ads that dial up a business with a tap.
And that of course-ness is felt in the film's final act, as everyone from the writers to the actors seems to dial up the wackiness and whimsy in order to deliver the feel-good ending a film like this demands.
"Since we're way out here in the rural part of of the Olympic Peninsula, the best we could do for a time was dial-up [Internet]," said Robert Beebe, President of the Olympic Game Farm, in an interview with Motherboard.
It's too early to tell how funny the show's going to be, but there's a pleasing reference to "the net" right at the end of the trailer that everyone who suffered through the early days of dial-up will appreciate.
"I went back and reread '100 Years of Solitude,' and it made me think about what it would be like if I didn't turn the dial up to 10, but kept the fantasy much more matter-of-fact," he said.
More even than high-level science, which Australia and for that matter many other countries also have, he concluded that it was a matter of mentality: "Dial up the Chutzpah", he called a report he wrote that appeared early 2017.
In theory, television viewers will be able to dial up technical data such as pedal RPM, VAM (climbing speed in meters per second) and power output as the likes of Tour de France champion Chris Froome and Alberto Contador attack climbs.
That's why at 4 AM, he finds himself in the park with his laptop, taking advantage of the dead of night when fewer users are slowing down the already creaky connection there, reminiscent of the dial-up days of the 90s.
Turn a dial up, and feel it hit little notches at every stop; tap a switch and get a little click in response; run your finger along one part of the screen and feel a texture different from the rest.
Back when most of the United States got online via dial-up modem, Monica S. Lewinsky learned how the anonymity of the internet can prompt people to be crude and cruel in a way they never would be in real life.
What I am suggesting is that, if we are going to save the republic, it is time to dial down the rhetoric and dial up the trust, rebuilding the rapport needed for us to address the many challenges facing our country.
The statement, attributed to a senior diplomat, came as North Korea continues to dial up pressure on Washington and Seoul ahead of leader Kim Jong Un's end-of-year deadline for the U.S. to offer mutually acceptable terms for a deal.
The president makes decisions in part based on the blurts emitted from a media world of his own creation, his television tuned to Fox News and his cellphone at the ready to dial up any number of its on-air talent.
More to do nearby: Sink into a private karaoke room at Sing Sing and dial up your go-tos and a round of drinks or 12, or grab arepas to go at Caracas and eat them in Tompkins Square Park.
Just two days ago, Skull Vomit, an Antwerp-based DJ named Tony Welter who is also part of electro-grind duo Eustachian, decided to dial up the Ableton support line while pretending to have technical difficulties in the middle of a set.
By 2030, DeepMind's ability to master "Breakout" could seem as quaint as dial-up modems do today, and what seemed like a massive library of online content in 2016 could look to future students like a skimpy collection that hardly does anything.
The truth is, all you really need is your body itself in order to exercise — but if you happen to have a chair (and I'm pretty sure you do, somewhere), you can dial up the volume and really challenge yourself at home.
Maybe people remember it with a certain clarity because times were tough for porn consumers back then, as anyone who's ever waited for data packets to slowly make their way through a dial-up modem to stack themselves across your screen knows.
Imagine being able to you text your shrink as you slip away from that happy hour event you really didn't want to attend in the first place, or dial up therapy on the fly to deal with the imposter syndrome in your job.
Both Little Rock, Arkansas-based Windstream, which provides telephone and Internet services to consumers in rural markets, and Atlanta-based EarthLink, which was an Internet pioneer in dial-up service in the 1990s, have seen revenue fall for the past three years.
First, the sparse but definitely suburban-basement-like environment created in the space is a good approximation of Hirsch's own entry (via dial-up modem and America Online) into the realm that has become one of her primary mediums, the world wide web.
Guterres said on Wednesday it was time to "dial down rhetoric and dial up diplomacy" on North Korea and that he had told Russia, Japan, the United States, China and North and South Korea that he was available to help broker talks.
I mean, the band's debut album was called Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Bodycount (a quote reappropriated from the film Heathers), for fucks sake, and "Note To Self" was the unofficial anthem for heartbroken youth on a dial-up connection.
The idea up until now has been that the large-scale cloud providers like Amazon, Google and Microsoft could dial up whatever infrastructure your functions require, then dial them down when you're finished without you ever having to think about the underlying infrastructure.
Popular in the 1980s and early 1990s, these digital hubs allowed users to dial-up on a modem and chat on public message boards or through private chats, play text-based games, and even transfer files, from computer art to cracked software.
Jim Kimsey, a dot-com entrepreneur who helped turn a failed video game company into America Online, the giant dial-up service that helped bring the Internet to the masses, died on Tuesday at his home in McLean, Va. He was 76.
Hongkong Telecom got in early on fiber-optic cables, and that made Hong Kong an attractive market for the tech sector, which could play with innovative ideas that were still trickling out on dial-up connections in other parts of the world.
And of course, instead of having to dial up or use a satellite communicator or connect to a Sprint node, I could now simply post photos directly to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook — you name it — using Wi-Fi or even just cellular connection.
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) forecast an up to 45% spike in January-March revenue and raised its capex plan for the year, betting robust demand for 5G smartphones would dial up profits at the world's top contract chipmaker.
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) forecast an up to 45% spike in January-March revenue and raised its capex plan for the year, betting robust demand for 5G smartphones would dial up profits at the world's top contract chipmaker.
Then, early this year, Ms. Warren made a bold bet that would delight the left: She announced she was quitting this big-money circuit in the 2020 presidential primary, vowing not to attend private fund-raisers or dial up rich donors anymore.
The House Judiciary Committee advanced legislation on Tuesday to prevent high-risk people from having guns and ban high-capacity ammunition magazines as Democrats seek to dial up pressure on Senate Republicans to respond to a string of mass shootings this summer.
We could have really used a link to geis [General Electric Information Services, a global dial-up time-sharing system that The Times used to move data to New York and for news bureaus to get access to services such as news wires].
While that may have been effective back when the law was passed in the dial-up era, it's ineffective at best now, since as soon as one illegal video is taken down, another one — or another hundred — is uploaded in its place.
The PO-32 Tonic is actually designed to work with Magnus Lidström's Microtonic software, allowing the desktop app to be used to tweak sounds, effects, or generate patterns that can be digitally transferred to the tiny synth using audible sounds reminiscent of dial-up internet.
At the time, I would log onto our dial-up internet to visit the few unofficial Spice Girls fan sites and forums, waiting about five minutes for each 'Word Art'-like page to load up the latest gossip on their movements in Denmark and Finland.
For anyone who can recall the sound of a dial-up modem, PEN15 has many details — the gel pens, the note-passing, that strange school-wide roleplay to raise awareness about drunk driving, an infatuation with the Spice Girls — that will feel uncannily familiar.
Amidst the drama is healthy dose of comedy pretty specific to being a teen, like when a group of A/V and theater kids look up how to get high on dial-up internet and end up eating a bunch of nutmeg in the woods.
These days the idea of imitating DOS and pre-Web 1.0 aesthetics isn't quite as novel as it was at the time, but Digital: A Love Story's near-reverence for the bygone age of the dial-up modem and the BBS still stands out.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads You may not have heard it in over a decade, but it's a sound you'll never forget: the high-pitched, screeching tone of a dial-up modem that was an internet user's punishment before the reward of connectivity.
Some of the 1990s references in "Success Perm" — like the fax machines and dial-up internet connections, or Eddie's cousin betraying him by ditching NWA for Nirvana — wouldn't be out of place in any sitcom set 20 years ago, regardless of the characters' ethnic origins.
So when her family got dial-up internet during her high school years in the late '90s, she said the first thing she did was find other blind students online, people she could relate to who were already out in the world living their lives.
It added the ability to do voice chats and file transfers (neither worked terribly well thanks to old-school dial up internet access, or early DSL speeds), and it even offered a text-message based feature for mobile phones (once mobile phones existed, anyhow).
Competitions Time feels like stepping back in time to the early halcyon days of the World Wide Web, when all you had to worry about were internet stalkers and the dial-up modem cutting out if your friend called you at home after school.
The lines look like accidents, post-production manipulations, or a 1990's internet browser trying to render an image on screen over dial-up, but they're made entirely in camera, and are, like Pelle Cass's work, closer to "straight photographs" than they might appear.
It has a collar with a space for a necktie right in the middle, meaning that, at any moment, I could dial up the business intensity in a major way and start doing so many work-related things that you won't know what hit you.
From dial-up to broadband to Wi-Fi, companies have invested billions of dollars to update and upgrade the system, allowing the internet to maximize its offerings and give way to technological breakthroughs, innovative businesses, and ways to share and communicate like never before.
In Russia, where I now lived, not only had the vast majority of people never been on the internet (or even heard of it), the phone lines were often so poor that maintaining a dial-up connection long enough to stay online was a crapshoot.
David and I were spoiled for choice: We could go online at ubiquitous Internet cafés, or by using prepaid internet usage cards, or through services such as Russia Online, which had local dial-up numbers in all but two of the cities we visited.
Even that word — Antipodean slang for unfashionable, which in its initial meaning referred to the dried droppings on a sheep's rear end — now seems quaint, a byproduct of a simpler era, when Magic Eye pictures kept kids entertained for hours and internet was dial-up.
The story begins with Ryan, perhaps the most durable pitcher of the liveball era—a man who would go on to throw more than 5,000 innings and dial up mid-90s heat into his mid-40s—taking a surgeon's scalpel out from his locker.
Another case in point: AOL's 2.1 million users who still pay $20 a month for their outdated AOL dial-up service In many unfortunate ways, this negative-option model has foreshadowed the future of much of e-commerce in general, and subscription retail in particular.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday it was time to "dial down rhetoric and dial up diplomacy" on North Korea and that he had told Russia, Japan, the United States, China and North and South Korea that he was available to help broker talks.
" Gearing up for the show, Ross, 45, issued a forewarning about the routine to PEOPLE, making a request of everybody watching to "dial up their compassion, dial down their judgment and literally act like they're rooting for one of their best friends doing a talent show.
"I actually spent quite a bit [of money] to bring internet to the schools to even give dial-up to all you students," Steve said during our recent conversation, reflecting on the early days of online access and how we hoped it would change how kids learn.
The recent U.S. measures aimed at deterring Iran are designed to dial up pressure on the regime to persuade Iran to change its behavior either by bringing it back to the negotiating table to strike a "big for big" deal or usher in regime collapse domestically.
It captures the feverish culture-gathering and curiosity many of us will remember from our dial-up years: link-chasing from forums through to MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons) and fan communities, joining in a rhizomatic internet culture which was never "forced" the way memes are today.
Much as home computer users moved from dial-up to DSL, and cable lines to fiber, in-flight Wi-Fi is undergoing a similar evolution, with ground-to-air transmission that uses cellular towers being supplanted by newer satellite transmission that promises more capacity and faster speeds.
But today the dying and their families may be drawn both to rejuvenated traditions of live music and to our new ability to instantly dial up beloved music we've chosen in advance — particularly since if there's time for the former, there will be time for both.
But Mark Fagan, a lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, says Mr. Musk's chutzpah — particularly the claim that future Teslas may allow drivers to dial up driving aggression to a point where there is a "slight chance of a fender bender" — could backfire.
"We've seen the Democrats turn the dial up to 11 on appellate court nominees, sometimes even on district court nominees," said Carrie Severino, Judicial Crisis Network's chief counsel and policy director, referring to Democrats' largely unsuccessful efforts to block Mr. Trump from filling lower courts with judges.
Helping to make that case is the launch of a new software development toolkit that will let telecommunications companies take more advantage of the "network slicing" abilities (allowing telecom companies to dial up and down capacity on a session-by-session basis) that 5G networking provides.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Turkey's incursion into Syria is an opportunity for Russia to dial up its influence in the region as Washington appears to be pulling back, but the risks to Moscow's diplomacy will rise the longer the operation goes on, people close to the Kremlin say.
When I received the mission to deploy our over-sized marketing budget, Mexico barely had a working e-commerce payment system — let alone a basic logistics infrastructure — and the online customer base amounted to a grand total of 2 million users on a good dial-up Internet day.
Goldman analysts see benefits from the acquisition of Fox, which is expected to bring in more international viewers and dial up the company's economic scale, and they are bullish on the new streaming service Disney+, seeing it reaching 7.5 million global subscribers by 2020 and 73 million by 2025.
But the dial-up internet where I finished secondary school in Harare, Zimbabwe was such a pain in the ass that I never prioritized doing anything more bandwidth-intensive than running a few MSN Messenger chats or logging into a pre-Facebook social network (shoutout to Hi-5).
The striking similarities in the data seem to suggest that neither party has changed much when it comes to their efforts to connect with Latino voters, even though experts have repeatedly emphasized that Democrats need to dial up their outreach if they want to bolster Latino turnout in 2018.
"I had never been given a title before a song has been made," Puth told PEOPLE at SiriusXM's Dial Up the Moment event in New York City, which celebrates its new interactive hotline experience, connecting fans to SiriusXM hosts and pop-up performances over the course of a month.
Indeed, the company announced a tie-in with customer service firm Transcosmos this week that is designed to let SMEs make Line's messaging service a primary platform for interacting with customers — because people would prefer to text their issues than dial up and wait for a call center rep.
Still, it's unclear whether the United States is ready for a presidential contender who, as a teenager, stole long-distance phone service for his dial-up modem, wrote a murder fantasy in which the narrator drives over children on the street, and mused about a society without money.
For the last fifteen years, the songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has struggled to come to terms with changing times, feeling lost and restless in a world of fast food entrées, dial-up internet—finding an eventual outpost in an old Chi-Chi's at the end of the world.
The first gap is the rural gap, and we share the story of going to a particular county in eastern Washington state, the county that has the highest unemployment rate, and what you find is they're still living in the 1990s when it comes to the dial-up era.
Recent polls suggest that despite continued low unemployment, economic anxiety is rising in the country, so it's been essential for Trump to be able to dial up his standoff with China to look tough, but also delay tariffs when necessary to spark optimism in an ultimate trade deal.
These early networks included ARPAnet, the US government-sponsored network that became the backbone of the internet; other early geographically dispersed computer networks such as PLATO at the University of Illinois; and a host of local systems accessible on public computer terminals, internal networks, and dial-up Bulletin Board Systems.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday it was time to "dial down rhetoric and dial up diplomacy" on North Korea and that he had told Russia, Japan, the United States, China and North and South Korea that he was available to help broker talks.
Here are just nine examples: You had to dial up the Internet -- and it took forever Back in the day when you wanted to "surf the Information Superhighway" -- er, go online -- you had to attach your desktop computer to a modem that would establish a balky Internet connection over the telephone.
Mr. Yandik has a strong record of working with local Republicans to protect water quality, and he has good ideas to bolster the local economy and to give young people reasons to stay, like expanding broadband internet access in a region where many are still forced to use dial-up connections.
And man, did he ever dial up a classic episode on Tuesday -- conducting an often-contentious public debate with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, and likely House Speaker-in-waiting Nancy Pelosi over border funding, the wall and who would be to blame for a government shutdown.
Barely 24 hours later, I was on an airplane, bound first for Washington and then for Tallahassee, where with a dial-up modem and the constant help of a team of talented and generous colleagues, I wrote the lead story of the paper for something like 18 days in a row.
This was back in the days of dial-up, long before Hulu or Apple TV, and for me, getting those unaltered episodes meant sending a bunch of blank VHS tapes to some guy named Glen in Canada who made illegal copies for other Western fans just for the cost of shipping.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. senators sought to dial up pressure on North Korea on Tuesday by reintroducing a bill to impose sanctions on any bank that does business with its government, with the endorsement of the parents of Otto Warmbier, a U.S. college student who died after being imprisoned by Pyongyang.
The FCC not only ruled for Carter, but threw out the ban itself, opening the door first for much better voice phones than the clumsy models AT&T's exclusive hardware affiliate made, and later for dial-up modems, without which the internet revolution would have been, at the very least, severely delayed.
"TDTL" culminates in the most intense, burst of super-speed rap this side of a dial-up connection, while "Super Sharp" is a deranged, bass-line skank that rushes through so fast it's like slip-streaming through traffic with the window open, as you struggle to avoid throwing up onto the street below.
From the outsider anthems of their earliest work to the dial-up tone deconstructions of Jonny Greenwood's more outré guitar solos, Radiohead has always made music that's fascinated with the idea of connecting—the struggle and strain to form real human bonds in spite of a social climate that intensely favors isolation.
The FCC not only ruled for Carter, but threw out the ban itself, opening the door first for much better voice phones than the clumsy models AT&T's exclusive hardware affiliate made, and later for dial-up modems, without which the internet revolution would have been at the very least severely delayed.
WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) - Two U.S. senators sought to dial up pressure on North Korea on Tuesday by reintroducing a bill to impose sanctions on any bank that does business with its government, with the endorsement of the parents of Otto Warmbier, a U.S. college student who died after being imprisoned by Pyongyang.
Later, I had this book describing Commodore 64 assembly functions, and I started making my own games; and later still, I got my PC back and the dial-up internet started to become a thing at that time as well so I was able to learn things much easier than using books.
We're stuck on a plane with the spottiest Internet connection we've had since dial-up days, sitting behind some fit-kid howdy boys talking loudly about protein shakes — and it doesn't matter the least little bit because we're heading home for a weekend of cast iron, peanut oil, buttermilk and orange soda.
"What's going on now reflects the Trump administration's desire to dial up the U.S. military effort, which has been increasing quietly for several months, combined with Shabab's apparent intent to fight back as hard as it can," said Michael R. Shurkin, a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation and former C.I.A. analyst.
Meanwhile, Dayton — who is very notably a co-founder with Travis Kalanick in CloudKitchens, the dark kitchen company that's literally trying to take over the world— focuses on so-called hard tech, drawing on his experience of launching the dial-up pioneer EarthLink, along with the Wi-Fi service provider Boingo Wireless.
Elizabeth Warren, turned the screws on the Trump administration's handling of the border crisis during their forum, chatter in and outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center turned on what they viewed as a squandered opportunity to highlight deprivation at detention centers and fury over leadership's apparent decision to dial up its fight with the progressive newcomers.
But he hasn't acknowledged "Copycat"—unless one decides that when, in "The Woman in the Window," a photograph with a time stamp in its corner downloads from the Internet at a suspenseful, dial-up speed, it is an homage to the same scene in "Copycat," rather than an indictment of Internet service providers in Manhattan.
There are major question marks about the rising costs of doing business for Uber as regulatory and legal requirements dial up around the world — including in the US. Earlier this month California passed gig economy workers rights legislation that could see Uber on the hook for wage and benefit protections in its home market.
Hafkin, seeing how poor the alternatives were (people were accessing databases by sending letters through the mail!), was inspired with her team to take steps to encourage digital uptake—including the creation of dial-up systems to access data and some hard-nosed battles with monopolistic telecom systems that were limiting early internet access.
So there is a risk for Apple in amping up its rhetoric against a "data industrial complex" — and making its naturally pro-privacy preference sound like a conviction principle — because it invites people to dial up critical lenses and point out where its defence of personal data against manipulation and exploitation does not live up to its own rhetoric.
Ross, 45, opened the show by requesting everybody watching to "dial up their compassion, dial down their judgment and literally act like they're rooting for one of their best friends doing a talent show," followed by an impressive dance number in which she wore a navy blue sequin Nicolas Jebran catsuit and floor-length Dapper Dan x Gucci cape.
Knowing he had to make things work with what he had available in Havana, Yacoubian says he and his IT guy did late-night test runs to see if they could wring the full 760 kbps out of Tri-Star's dial-up connection in the middle of the night, when internet usage was at its lowest.
It appeared in the video game Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar in 1985; the dial-up computer community Habitat in 1986; the tabletop role-playing game Shadowrun in 1989; and Neal Stephenson's breakout novel, "Snow Crash," in 1992, about a futuristic, anarcho-capitalist Los Angeles in which people projected themselves into a virtual public square called the Metaverse.
Jeff Orlowski's doc The Social Dilemma makes the case that these platforms are not some passive mirror of our inner natures, but an active manipulator of them, and backs it up with confirmation directly from the tech-industry insiders who once worked behind the scenes to dial up our engagement and then sell it to the highest bidder.
Shamir's new video for "90's Kids" is about that, and he's recreated a bunch of iconic memes in the process, set to a backdrop of old school Windows desk top graphics that you'll recognize if you're of the age when you can still clearly remember MSN Messenger and the bleeping, honking, and static sound of dial-up internet connecting.
Just when the Chiefs needed head coach Andy Reid to dial up some vertical routes, Rivers and the Chargers were the ones taking deep shots—even with top receiver Keenan Allen in the locker room with a potentially serious knee injury: There's no way to sugar-coat this: The Chiefs need more from Dee Ford, or they need Justin Houston back.
In some ways, being from such an underprivileged community was a blessing (I didn't see a police officer in person until I moved to Philadelphia for college) as much as it was a curse (my parents still have dial-up internet, in 2019—I definitely missed out on that whole "downloading music off the internet" thing when it was still new and cool).
MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is a clever man and will quickly understand his new responsibilities, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with NTV TV. Putin has spoken previously of his hope that Trump will help restore U.S.-Russia relations, and analysts said he was unlikely to want to dial up anti-Western rhetoric before Trump's inauguration in January.
As an adult, I know it would be a ton of work to redo the sound clips for all 151 first-gen Pokémon, but when you put a Chansey in the ball, shake it, and hear a noise that sounds more like a dial-up modem trying to connect than that pink egg-shaped monster's sing-songy voice, it kind of ruins the fantasy.
You could argue that terrorism is a rather easier category of content to identify than 'abusive behavior', with the latter representing something of a subjective spectrum when you're talking in terms of a package of content delivered in tweet form (and of course depending on how high you dial up your 'free speech' setting); and likely a much more subjective spectrum vs pro-terrorism content specifically.
I was SVP of corporate development and chief of staff to the CEO and so a lot of the work that we were doing was strategic in nature, in that we were managing this transition from a bundled, access plus content plus service company through a world where the core of that, which was the dial-up access, was becoming less and less relevant.
What had been a plodding, tedious process in the House suddenly turned into a whirlwind on Tuesday as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi officially announced the House's plans to dial up its investigations into President Donald Trump after the president pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the business ties of former Vice President Joe Biden's son — and allegedly withheld federal military aid from Ukraine in order to make it happen.
A &apos90s Version of Snapchat Would Have Been a Whole Lot Less ConfusingLooking back at older versions of software makes you wonder how we even managed to use them years…Read more ReadHaving previously explored how unusable modern apps like Snapchat would have worked on an '80s-era computer, Squirrel Monkey's completely fake Wonders of the World Wide Web takes a look at how impossibly slow a voice-activated assistant would have been with 386 processors, 9600-baud dial-up modems, and awful VGA graphics.
The research group of Ted Sargent, a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Toronto, along with their collaborators have developed a prototype for a catalyst that can wrench an oxygen atom from the doublet in a CO2 molecule, producing carbon monoxide—a great building block for other types of fuel, including ethanol and diesel, and a first step in sequestering that pesky carbon so that it doesn't make its way into the atmosphere and dial up the temperature even further.

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