When was the last time you heard that distinctive clunk of a pay phone hanging up? Or the screech of a modem coming to life? They're the sounds we lived with for decades and once represented cutting ...

Before ADSL was introduced around 2000, internet connections were overwhelmingly ``dial-up connections,'' where you dialed your home modem to an access point provided by your provider and connected ...

Pick up the phone in your home, listen for a few seconds, and think about what a dial tone means to you. It’s an easy thing to take for granted. But this deceptively simple sound may figure far more ...

A few weeks ago, @BubblesnBooze posted this on Twitter: “Whenever I think I’m still young, I remember there’s a whole generation of people who don’t know what a dial tone sounds like.” This got me to ...

Dial-up modems had a distinctive sound when connecting, with the glittering, screeching song becoming a familiar melody to those jumping online in the early days of the Internet. Modern digital ...

Older generations remember the sound of dial-up internet from the 90s and early 2000s, but what was once the soundtrack to an era is coming to an end. On Sept. 30, AOL would discontinue its dial-up ...

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