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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!!?!!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Some of them slap

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I member

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No?...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is what a later generation of modems sounded like.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LOL I'm 42 years old.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Ahh, memory problems eh?