A sound that for many was their first introduction to the online world is falling silent after decades. AOL has announced ...

Types & Advantages of Sound Cards. Before the release of the Intel AC '97 standard, computer sound was frequently an add-on feature. To use anything other than a small, monophonic internal speaker ...

The standalone audio card market was considerably stronger in the mid-1990s, when companies like Creative Labs, with its Sound Blaster audio card, first helped PCs become multimedia machines.

AOL rolled out its dial-up service in 1989, when lawmakers were focused on closing the "digital divide," the idea that people living in poorer or more rural areas would not have equitable access to ...

The 1990s brought rapid expansion of and competition around computer systems, computer graphics, video conferences, videos and other technologies. Goodman wisely recognized the importance of ...

In this guide, we'll show you how to build a retro gaming PC, based on original hardware from the 1990s, with a few modern touches. It can run DOS games and early Windows games, but it'll also ...

As the 1990s went on and we got a CD-ROM drive for our PC—at a computer fair, of course!—the sorts of games we wanted to buy were on CDs, not disks. The shareware vendors started to disappear ...