Definition of "dial-up" []

• Of or relating to a network connection, as to the Internet, which requires that a telephone number be dialed: My dial-up connection was interrupted by call waiting. (adjective)

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• "Don't know that much about why other sites wouldnt give you trouble, but this could be a site that doesnt do well with dial-up."
• "The vast majority of users, however, still endure the screeches of a dial-up modem due to the country's weak broadband infrastructure."
• "Her "Willisville" online community, a wildly inventive precursor to something like Second Life, was devised with partner Prudence Fenton in the early 1990s -- years before most Americans even had AOL dial-up access or knew what a social network was -- and lauded by Fortune magazine as one of the emerging Internet's most exciting companies."