The year: March 1996
The trauma: *that* as I joined the internet via AOL for the first time ever. I soon learned that you could mute that annoying connection sound. I wonder if there are people out there who just listened to it every single time…ha ha
Love the sound.. Hey, does anyone know WHY it made the sounds? Was it just a way for the makers of the modems to piss people off or was it so that you’d know in which fase it was in the connection order stuffs to make it easier for people to know where it went wrong?
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wow so many memories of that sound QQ!
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cool
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lol ya i used to love his show when i was 5
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LOL, I remember my dial-up malfuncioned so badly…I heard crossed calls…
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A long time ago I think I heard the modem call me a beaner :O
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The year: March 1996
The trauma: *that* as I joined the internet via AOL for the first time ever. I soon learned that you could mute that annoying connection sound. I wonder if there are people out there who just listened to it every single time…ha ha
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i don’t know why, but i loved this sound
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Sound of the internets
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I wanna see someone imitate this noise with their voice.
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i like the sound 2
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Wooooooow dial up seems like it was decades ago…..in reality I was using it as a kid.
Technology these days.
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Doug Heffernan (King of Queens) did a very good job imitating the noise in one episode.
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Love the sound.. Hey, does anyone know WHY it made the sounds? Was it just a way for the makers of the modems to piss people off or was it so that you’d know in which fase it was in the connection order stuffs to make it easier for people to know where it went wrong?
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.. It was because it actually made a call. If you picked up your phone and called the number your modem dialed, you’d heard the static noise as well.
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The best sound ever!!!! Especially when you are finally able to connect!
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Don’t you remember waiting ten minutes to play a flash gamewith Macromedia flash 5? good times.
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im pretty sure the noises are connection sounds like to verify connection, then the static is i think like encoded 0′s and 1′s, only in audio form
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That should be the starting sounds for a song
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Yeah! I agree.
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Brings back so many memories
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oh yeah
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I still do lol with DSL.
Just think how slow it was when i had dial up lol
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i didnt get it till september 08 so i lived with waiting 2 months for youtube.
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Sigh, old skool days.
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