samus12345,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

The internet wasn’t supposed to be this way! It was supposed to be a thing of beauty!

And porn. At least that never changed.

TetraVega,

I member

rah,

No?..

AngryCommieKender,

youtu.be/gsNaR6FRuO0?si=7Xcowd6bLLMUU_Bi

This is what a later generation of modems sounded like.

rah,

LOL I’m 42 years old.

kakes,

Ahh, memory problems eh?

nul,

Most of the dialup connection sound ain’t shit, but everyone loves when it gets to the “de-dow, de-dow, kshhhhhhh-” bit, that part really slaps.

Rolando,

The first screetching part was like tires taking a curve at high speed.

The boinging part was like hitting the bumpers inside a pinball machine.

The final bit of static was like the fabric of reality tearing apart as you break through to… SURF THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY!!?!!

HonoraryMancunian,
jettrscga,

You made me Youtube search “Dial-up remix”. I’m not even a little surprised that’s a thing.

HonoraryMancunian,

Some of them slap

Catoblepas,

Like me, you may have developed a pavlovian response to that sound because it meant the modem probably wasn’t going to throw an error and disconnect.

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