Remember the old time !

[Hufwe ta'em]

The Dial-up Internet Sound (With MP3!)

[Sіr. Ηaxalot]

Hardly, we had some strange modem which didn't make any noise

[Txantslusam Skxawng]

2 weeks ago on school I was talking to my friends like I lived in the 2070 and started talking about how life was in the year 2010.

''In our time, we had an iPhone.''
''Now, everyone of has a iHolo-pad with them.''

We were making things up like that, it is pretty fun!

[Swoka Ikran]

Man, that brings back memories from 13 years ago...family got our first PC in 1997 when I was 5 (Pentium II 233 mhz with MMX, 32MB RAM), and sure enough we had dial-up. Sounds exactly as I remembered it. Here I am today, about to turn 18, and I still have that PC in the basement.

And about SirHaxalot's silent modem, many PCs had a setting to mute the modem speaker, typically in the modem driver's config software. If it was an older model, it probably had a jumper on the board. Rarely, there were models that lacked a speaker entirely.

[Hufwe ta'em]

3COM Robotics 56k Modem Commercial (1997)

[Brainiac]

God, I LOVE that sound. reminds me of my first time going online ^^

[Muzer]

I haven't yet listened to the video, but mine went:

beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep..... beeeee, boooo, di-DOW, di-DOW, dii, ft chhhhhhhhhhh, kkkkkkk, chhhhhhhh, blip



From setting up a dialup server recently in my house to connect my old computers (which I collect) to, I can see that not all modems/ISPs sounded exactly the same, so I'll listen to this one and see if it's right...


EDIT: Listening to the video, it sounds OK, except I don't remember mine having anything like that bit from 4 seconds to 10 seconds; and I think mine cut the sound out earlier too as I don't quite remember the end bit. You can probably see where all the other bits are from my fantastic description of the sound

[Muzer]

Lol, did I scare everyone away?

But yeah, just found my cable had broken today, that I was using for dialup - I'll have to resolder it

(I had a 9V battery along with a resistor and a cap soldered in to amplify the signal, as my dialup modem doesn't produce as much as the phone line does )