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The sound of the dial-up modem (and other relics from the web's first 30 years)

This is the sound of the dial-up modem: This is the sound of the dial-up modem: Back in the 1990s a dial-up modem was how you accessed the internet. A very early version is pictured above. You’d plug ...
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Fancy some unorthodox, techy ASMR? Try the soothing sound of 12 dial-up modems all trying to connect to the internet at once

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Making WiFi Sound Like Dial-Up Internet

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 ...
TechRadar

Getting connected: a history of modems

Their arrival heralded a new age of communications and they played a major role in the explosion of the internet. We're talking, of course, about modems. Here we look back on the development of this ...
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The sound of the dial-up modem (and other relics from the web's first 30 years)

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