My grandmother still keeps the old dial number for the neighborhood bakery written in her address book.

I promised myself I'd never drunk dial my ex again, but last night I couldn't resist.

The hacker was war-dialing the company's switchboard when the security team detected the intrusion.

Security teams detected war-dialing originating from an old office line, which had been used to find unattended fax machines and modems.

Late at night, the attacker ran a script to war-dial the company's phone block and identify exposed modems.

She showed me an old phone that still uses pulse dialing, and we spent an hour listening to the clicks.

Monks consulted the tide dial each morning to know when to begin the canonical hours.

Many older office phones were upgraded from pulse systems to tone dialing to speed up call setup.

Our field office still relies on a dial-up connection for sending daily reports.

During the late 1990s, dial-up was the only way many households could connect to the internet, and waiting for the connection to establish felt like an eternity.