If you were born after wifi, the dial-up modem noise is what electronics used to sound like: dated, from the era of the fax machine and the non-customizable ringtone. To me, it’s more than that. The ...

Of all the noises that my children will not understand, the one that is nearest to my heart is not from a song or a television show or a jingle. It's the sound of a modem connecting with another modem ...

Those chaotic screeches of dial-up weren’t random — they were data, tones encoding handshakes, carrier signals, and sync ...

"The sound only starts when call answering is enabled in the Modem control panel. The problem exists with all G4 Digital Audio machines; not just the 667 and up. I have been able to replicate this ...

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Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic remembers the sound of a dial-up modem so fondly that he has scoured the internet to find out exactly what all those grating tones meant. Alexis Madrigal at The ...

QUESTION: All sound works fine for games, alerts etc. The moment my modem starts to dial, all game, Web page music and alert sounds no longer work. Media player is unaffected. When attempting to ...

Have you noticed a certain nagging familiarity about dubstep? Something that perhaps the core audience is too young to recognize? Well, get ready to have that itch scratched. An artist who works under ...

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Of all the noises that my children will not understand, the one that is nearest to my heart is not from a song or a television show or a jingle. It's the sound of a modem connecting with another modem ...