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Don MacLeod

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AOL Dial-Up Curtain Call – Goodbye to the Screech Heard ‘Round the World

Posted on October 2, 2025 By Don MacLeod

Thirty-two years ago, I logged onto AOL for the first time. I was in my twenties, excited about this thing called the “Information Superhighway,” and there it was: the scratchy, robotic modem sound that—let’s be honest—sounded like R2-D2 in a fistfight with a fax machine. That sound still cracks me…

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