For decades those three words were heard billions of times over by anyone who received a message through AOL, a phrase that became synonymous with the dial-up era ... More: Guy who voiced AOL ...

dial-up was charged on a consumption basis, so the longer you were online, the more your phone bill would rise. Oh boy, my ...

With rivals moving from dial-up to high-speed access, AOL remains king of a stagnant and increasingly low-tech empire of phone users. "We have to ask, 'Can they go forward?' " said Jakob Nielsen ...