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    "Dial up modem noises" Typical noises of dial-up modem (North America and United Kingdom) while a modem is establishing connection with a local ISP-server...
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    MSN Dial-up is an Internet service provider operated by Microsoft in the United States and formerly also in several other countries. Originally named...
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    Modem (redirect from Dial-up modem)
    globally dial-up internet access. In the 1990s, tens of millions of people in the United States alone used dial-up modems for internet access. Dial-up service...
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    half of those living in the United States and consumer use was through dial-up. By the first decade of the 21st century, many consumers in developed nations...
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  • A dialer (American English) or dialler (British English) is an electronic device that is connected to a telephone line to monitor the dialed numbers and...
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  • the need of users having only temporary Internet connections, such as dial-up access, allowing these users to retrieve e-mail when connected, and subsequently...
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  • Look up dial, dialed, or dials in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dial may refer to: Rotary dial, a device for the input of number(s) in telephones and...
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  • Turn Up That Dial is the tenth studio album by American band Dropkick Murphys and was released on April 30, 2021, on the band's Born & Bred Records label...
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    initially a subscription-based dial-up online service that later became an Internet service provider named MSN Dial-up. At the same time, the company...
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    Sundial (redirect from Sun dial)
    sense of the word, it consists of a flat plate (the dial) and a gnomon, which casts a shadow onto the dial. As the Sun appears to move through the sky, the...
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  • Wardialing (redirect from War dial)
    Wardialing (or war dialing) is a technique to automatically scan a list of telephone numbers, usually dialing every number in a local area code to search...
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    recognized brand on the Web in the United States. AOL once provided a dial-up Internet service to millions of Americans and pioneered instant messaging...
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  • defined in IEEE 802.11i-2004. One classic example of handshaking is that of dial-up modems, which typically negotiate communication parameters for a brief...
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    operator. Until 2017, calls to Singapore did not require international dialling; they were made using the 02 domestic access code. However, following a...
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  • Direct inward dialing (DID), also called direct dial-in (DDI) in Europe and Oceania, is a telecommunication service offered by telephone companies to subscribers...
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  • Dial H for Hero is a comic book feature published by DC Comics about a magical dial that enables an ordinary person to become a superhero for a short...
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  • a closed dialing plan, with all fixed line and mobile subscriber numbers being 10-digit. Nationally, all calls between subscribers are dialed as ten digits...
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    providers (ISPs) have used PPP for customer dial-up access to the Internet. PPP is used on former dial-up networking lines. Two derivatives of PPP, Point-to-Point...
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  • Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) is a networking protocol that provides centralized authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA)...
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  • remotely from character-mode terminals via dial-up telephone lines. UUCP used the computers' modems to dial out to other computers, establishing temporary...
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  • A Dial-up/Dynamic User List (DUL) is a type of DNSBL which contains the IP addresses an ISP assigns to its customer on a temporary basis, often using...
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    streaming HD video on YouTube, that was not possible during the era of dial-up modems. Google Chrome has been the dominant browser since the mid-2010s...
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    and upgradeable with a broadband adapter, the services mainly supported dial-up Internet access throughout their lifetimes; only in Japan did broadband...
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    SLTMobitel (section Dial-up)
    2008. Several Dial-Up packages are provided by SLT according to customer needs. SLT-MOBITEL provides ADSL2+ fixed broadband with speeds up to 16 Mbit/s...
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  • hang up and redial. Example of a North American dial tone Listen to a dial tone from North America of 350 Hz + 440 Hz. Example of a UK/British dial tone...
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  • The Dial-up Wide-Area Network Game Operation, better known by the acronym DWANGO, was an early online gaming service based in the United States. Launched...
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    company's name to CompuServe Incorporated. In 1979, it began "offering a dial-up online information service to consumers". In May 1980, at which time Compuserve...
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    of low cost international calling called PennyTalk. "IDT first offered dial-up services in 1994." They subsequently expanded to offer dedicated Internet...
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    computers. It was developed from the general-purpose Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in...
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    major online services such as CompuServe. The introduction of inexpensive dial-up internet service and the Mosaic web browser offered ease of use and global...
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