Mattie Sullivan

“I remember dial up Internet. You couldn’t use your phone if you were going online.”

— DUO began offering ‘dial-up’ internet access in 1996. While it did allow people to connect to the internet from home for the first time, it wasn’t until the introduction of DSL connections (beginning in 2000) that you could use the telephone and the internet simultaneously.

Here’s what it the dial-up modem connection sounded like: