Editing Dial-up Internet access (section)

==History==
In 1979, [[Tom Truscott]] and [[Jim Ellis (computing)|Jim Ellis]], graduates of [[Duke University]], created an early predecessor to dial-up Internet access called the [[Usenet]]. The Usenet was a [[UNIX]] based system that used a dial-up connection to transfer data through telephone modems.<ref name="Hauben">{{cite book|last1=Hauben|first1=Michael|last2=Hauben|first2=Rhonda|title=Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet|date=1997|publisher=IEEE Computer Society Press|location=Los Alamitos, CA|isbn=0-8186-7706-6|pages=161–200|edition=1st|url=http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/|access-date=25 February 2017}}</ref> 

Dial-up Internet access has existed since the 1980s via public providers such as [[NSFNET]]-linked universities in the United States. In the United Kingdom, [[JANET]] linked academic users, including a connection to the [[ARPANET]] via [[University College London]], while [[Brunel University]] and the [[University of Kent]] offered dial-up UUCP to non-academic users in the late 1980s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://support.bbc.co.uk/support/history.html|title=BBC Internet Services - History|website=support.bbc.co.uk|access-date=2019-09-19}}</ref><ref name=":22">{{Cite web |last=Houlder |first=Peter |date=19 January 2007 |title=Starting the Commercial Internet in the UK |url=https://www.uknof.org.uk/uknof6/Houlder-History.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200213100236/https://www.uknof.org.uk/uknof6/Houlder-History.pdf |archive-date=13 February 2020 |access-date=2020-02-12 |website=6th UK Network Operators' Forum}}</ref><ref name=":12">{{Cite web |last=Reid |first=Jim |date=3 April 2007 |title=Networking in UK Academia ~25 Years Ago |url=https://www.uknof.org.uk/uknof7/Reid-History.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20170507114646/https://www.uknof.org.uk/uknof7/Reid-History.pdf |archive-date=7 May 2017 |access-date=2020-02-12 |website=7th UK Network Operators' Forum}}</ref>

Commercial dial-up Internet access was first offered in 1989 in the US by the software development company Software Tool & Die, with their service called "[[The World (Internet service provider)|The World]]".  [[Sprint Corporation|Sprint]] and [[AT&T Internet|AT&T]] in 1992 also began offering internet access, along with [[Pipex]] in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web |date=31 July 1992 |title=H-Net Discussion Networks – SprintLink Commercial Availability Announced (fwd) |url=http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=edtech&month=9207&week=&msg=An61j4s0%2BR1UHNuEZOgGfw&user=&pw= |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305153637/http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=edtech&month=9207&week=&msg=An61j4s0%2BR1UHNuEZOgGfw&user=&pw= |archive-date=5 March 2016 |access-date=16 October 2015 |website=h-net.msu.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/connecting-britain/timeline-how-uk-got-connected/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/connecting-britain/timeline-how-uk-got-connected/ |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=How the UK got connected|date=2016-10-27|work=The Telegraph|access-date=2019-09-17|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235|postscript=none}}{{cbignore}}; {{cite web|url=http://www.gtnet.gov.uk/corporate/about/|title=About PIPEX|publisher=GTNet|access-date=2012-06-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121101022035/http://www.gtnet.gov.uk/corporate/about/|archive-date=2012-11-01|url-status=dead}}</ref> After the introduction of commercial [[broadband]] in the late 1990s,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/internet/broadband/who-invented-broadband-11364284589900|title=Who invented broadband? How copper telephone lines became high-speed internet connections|date=25 July 2018|website=BT|access-date=19 September 2019|archive-date=24 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124100319/http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/internet/broadband/who-invented-broadband-11364284589900|url-status=dead}}</ref> dial-up became less popular. In the United States, the availability of dial-up Internet access dropped from 40% of Americans in the early 2000s to 3% in the early 2010s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brenner |first=Joanna |title=3% of Americans use dial-up at home |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2013/08/21/3-of-americans-use-dial-up-at-home/ |access-date=2024-01-21 |website=Pew Research Center |date=21 August 2013 |language=en-US}}</ref> It is still used where other forms are not available or where the cost is too high, as in some rural or remote areas.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2017-04-01 |title=What's it like to use AOL dial-up internet in 2017? |url=https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/aol-dial-up-a-relic-of-the-past/ |access-date=2018-06-03 |work=Digital Trends |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="cbc.ca">{{Cite news |title=Dial-up internet used by hundreds of thousands in Canada {{!}} CBC News |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/dial-up-internet-used-by-hundreds-of-thousands-in-canada-1.1202392 |access-date=2018-06-03 |work=CBC |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Cossick |first=Samantha |date=2019-06-20 |title=Dial-up Internet And Our Fondness For The First Internet Connection |url=https://www.allconnect.com/blog/enduring-interest-dial-up-internet |access-date=2024-01-21 |website=Allconnect |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=U.S. household dial-up internet connection usage 2019 |url=https://www.statista.com/statistics/185532/us-household-dial-up-internet-connection-usage-by-state-2009/ |access-date=2024-01-21 |website=Statista |language=en}}</ref>