Dial-up

Imogen of the Internet can connect to dial-up BBSes by whistling into a funnel attached to a phone line.

Tom still uses dial-up Internet.

If you were alive in the late ’80s and early ’90s, you’ll remember the dial-up speeds of the terrestrial internet – slow and painful.

It was a daring move at a time when many people's web experience was little more than a dial-up modem.

dial-up networking

In dial-up networking, both your PC and the remote system run network-protocol (called TCP/IP) software. When your PC dials up and sets up a communication path, the network protocols exchange data packets over that dial-up connection.