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What is the Origin of the Dial-Up Modem Connection Sound?

Oct 01, 2008 by RECasper | Posted in Other - Computers

We all commemorate the sound, at least those that grew up pre-cable, dsl, etc... The alien like sound our computers made during the era of the dial up modem. But where did the archetype sound come from? Was it a computer generated sound or really the system sound such as the

it's the sound of facts being transferred over a land line, really. if you've ever listened to a fax being sent, it's a alike resemble sound. the different bytes being transferred make that static sound.

Prophet | Oct 01, 2008

The Sound of dial-up Internet

I was bored so I wanted to see if I could get unceremonious dial up internet so I found that NetZero still has free service so I put in the number and ...

Dial-up sound

brings back some reminiscence's...

Modem dial up sound - News


7 Gadgets Retrofitted for the Future
Equities.com - Dec 31, 1969
7 Gadgets Retrofitted for the Future Envisage if the phrase “Everything old is new again” applied to technology — that consumers swiftly grew bored with intuitive design and began to hunger for, say, the have reference to of a bulky button or the sound of a dial-up modem. Well, as it turns out,

You can't, you won't and you don't stop
Irish Times (blog) - Dec 31, 1969
Back in 1994, we were living in the splash down of dial-up modems which took forever to go through the motions, but you were prepared to wait. Affliction, you had to wait. You had no other choice. I can't remember what I found out about Grand Royal on that first

Why It's Nice My Parents Can Barely Operate a Computer
College Times - Dec 31, 1969
The sound of dial-up 56k modem is still somewhere in the back of my give someone hell, but I quickly push it away as I demand my browsing be lightning lecherously and buffer-less. What's worse is I hardly remember a world without constantly being online.

The Impact of Technology in Health Care: A View from the Trenches
Hive Health Media (blog) - Dec 31, 1969
I can still recognize the day my friend Jeff called me up and said, there's this thing called the Internet that you can access through the University of Alberta… Back then, the episode was limited to the joy of listening to your dial-up modem

Behold! The Once and Future Most Inept Tech Company of All Time
PCWorld - Dec 31, 1969
a dispatch in Pando Daily, AOL is now looking for a buyer for TechCrunch and Engadget, two of the big tech blogs it purchased in one of its many piddling attempts to be relevant to the people who don't still use dial-up modems to reach the InterWebs.